Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?

At 3:17:47 PM on Friday, April 11, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

[...]

>> The name appears as <Berebronna> 1116, <Belebrunna> 1172,
>> <Bellebrona> 12th c., <Bellebronna> 14th c. Unless Poulet
>> has new evidence, I'd go with Morlet (and the older Dauzat &
>> Rostaing) and derive the first element from the masculine
>> Gmc. name <Bero>.

> Or possibly heed your own advice
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/57139
> and leave the question open?

No, on this evidence I'd go with the <Bero> derivation as a
good bet, though of course not a certainty.

Brian