From: Torsten
Message: 66494
Date: 2010-08-28
>In how many of the English *wen(d/t)-, *win(d/t)- place names that you have derivations for can you exclude a derivation from Wend, Wind "Wend"
> At 11:53:24 PM on Friday, August 27, 2010, Rick McCallister
> wrote:
>
>
> > OK, but what about England? Do we see any *Wendelthorps,
> > *Weldelthrups?, *Wendelthwaites, *Wendelbys in Eastern
> > England? Could some of the Winthrops and Winthorps
> > "Friend's village" be folk etymologies for *Wend-thorp?
> > Winthorp, after all is a bilingual formation, as normally
> > seen, AS win + ODanish thorp.
>
> <Winthorpe> in Lincs. is from the OE masculine name <Wina>
> plus one of ON <þorp>, ODan <thorp>, and OE <þorp> ~ <þrop>;
> <Winthorpe> in Notts. is either from OE <Wigmund> or ON
> <VÃgmundr> plus one of the 'thorp' words. In neither case
> does the name actually have to be bilingual, and neither
> is from OE <wine> 'friend'.