03-11-03 15:46, tgpedersen wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
> <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> Apart from the Harz mountains, what are those toponyms?
The Harz(gebirge) would be called "Har(d)t" (and was indeed called Hart
in OHG) if it hadn't been for the folk-etymological association with
Harz 'resin' (but there's a hill range still called Hardt, a
continuation of the Vosges). The common noun existed in OHG; the
toponymic attestation I had in mind comes from England, where there are
placenemes like <Upper Hardres> (called <[æt] Haredum> 'in the woods' in
Old English and <Hardes> [< *Hardas] in the 11th c.).
Piotr