Re: [tied] German TH,

At 4:58:35 PM on Friday, April 16, 2004, Joao wrote:

> Is there any etymological or dialectal explanation for
> German anthroponyms and toponyms with -TH-, like Orth,
> Rothenberger, Roth?

Not to my knowledge; this use of <th> for /t/ in native
German words is, I believe, simply an imitation of Latin and
perhaps Greek models.

Brian