Re: The role of analogy, alliteration and sandhi in counting

> > I have to remember where I seen some toponims/hydronims in
> > Germanic space where "afa" is present and it was
> > translated as "water".
>
> You're thinking of names like <Wisilaffa> 1027 (the
> Wieslauf, in Württemberg), <Biberaffa>, <Askaffa>,
> <Waldaffa>, etc.?
>

Perhaps Aschaffenburg opposite the river Aschaff < *ask-apa- then is
Tacitus' Asciburgum (-burg isn't necessarily Germanic either)?

Torsten