Servais@dormi.zone to YUROP@lemm.ee · 10 months agoGerman place name endingsdormi.zoneimagemessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1148arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1147arrow-down1imageGerman place name endingsdormi.zoneServais@dormi.zone to YUROP@lemm.ee · 10 months agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareEmoDucklinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoThe -ach and -bach are interesting. Are there no rivers in the north?
minus-squareSkua@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·10 months agoIt looks like -au basically traces the Elbe basin, so I assume that that ending took over in that area for some reason
minus-square5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-210 months agoIt might be -beek and -bek, due to Lower Saxon (Plattdeutsch) influence. -bruch/-bruck and -brück might also be relevant.
minus-squareCyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up5·10 months agoNot might, it is this. -bruch, -bruck and -brück are something different though. While being related to the english “brook”, a Bruch is swampland. -bruck or -brück however indicate a bridge (like the German word for bridge, Brücke).
minus-squareonion@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoThough “bridge” can also refer to a board walk through swampland…
The -ach and -bach are interesting. Are there no rivers in the north?
It looks like -au basically traces the Elbe basin, so I assume that that ending took over in that area for some reason
It might be -beek and -bek, due to Lower Saxon (Plattdeutsch) influence. -bruch/-bruck and -brück might also be relevant.
Not might, it is this. -bruch, -bruck and -brück are something different though. While being related to the english “brook”, a Bruch is swampland. -bruck or -brück however indicate a bridge (like the German word for bridge, Brücke).
Though “bridge” can also refer to a board walk through swampland…