From: dgkilday57
Message: 68595
Date: 2012-02-22
>Under my hypothesis, the place was out of the Roman orbit after the post-Arminian withdrawal, and so did not appear in records.
> >A parallel Gmc. borrowing is seen in Old English <cempa> 'soldier,
> >warrior' from Lat. <campio:> '(battle)field-man', in turn from
> ><campus> 'field'.
>
> Cf. German Kampf "struggle, fight, battle" & Kämpfer. Cf. Kämpe
> (of Low German/Old Saxon orig.) = Kämpfer.
>
> >>What I propose is that Roman colonization was under way in
> >>Augustan times
>
> But Kassel was attestet only in 913 (under Konrad I), with the
> spellings Chassalla, Chassella. (NB, until 1926, Cassel was also
> an official spelling.)
> And: why should this toponym be put in connection with a LatinI have no better explanation of this toponym. If there is one, I will drop my hypothesis like a hot potato.
> word?