Re: Place names with -ham, -thorp & -shire (was: Schoeffe I)

At 4:00:58 AM on Saturday, April 30, 2011, t0lgsoo1 wrote:

> The Egyptian Chronicles wrote:

[...]

>>P.Gmc. *skizo (cf. O.H.G. Scira "care, official charge").
>> [ ... ]
>>had. scîra f. Besorgung, Geschäft.

> Has this old German _scira_ any derivation in modern
> German?

Not that I can discover. This isn't really surprising:
according to the OED s.v. <shire>, the OHG word appears only
in two glosses, <scirono> 'negotiorum' and <scira habat>
'procurat'.

Brian