Re: [tied] Gmc. Place-names & the Pas-de-Calais [was: Transhumance]

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

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> From: "alex" <alxmoeller@...>
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> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 2:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Gmc. Place-names & the Pas-de-Calais [was:
> Transhumance]
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>> how should be transalted this "*inga-s" then? What should it mean?
>
> It should be Old English <-ing-as>, in fact, < PGmc. *-ing-o:s(iz),
> the plural of <-ing>, reflecting the PGmc. nom.sg. *-ing-az. The
> suffix <-ing-> meant, more or less, 'connected with...' or 'related
> to...', so <X-ingas> were 'X's people'.
>
> PIotr

can be this meaning related it to the meaning "near", "in the vicinity
of" ?
Alex