Re: Wuz

At 4:30:52 AM on Wednesday, October 3, 2007, tgpedersen
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

[...]

>> How would etymologize 'Land van Waas' (the land between
>> Gent and Antwerpen, pretty flat, close to the
>> Westerschelde)?

> http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/taalentongval/abstracts/Vaan2.pdf

> Seems there were several places called Waas (I don't think
> the 'Goth' connection holds).

No places named <Waas> are mentioned in the abstract. Gueux
(Marne) is in record as <Gothi> ~850; Gouts (Landes) is
<Goti> 10th c.; Gouts-Rossignol (Dord.) is <Guz> 10th c.,
<Goz> 1100; Montgueux (Aube) is <Montguor> 1152x80, from
<Gothorum>, and appears in Latin as <Gothi>. Not much doubt
about the Goths in these place-names.

Brian