Re: Of Vennemann's proposals

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> /On the Aps vs. Abtsbach issue "was there an abbey
> nearby?"/
>
> I thought: wonder what the abbot (whoever he was)
> called his favourite brook? Aps perhaps?...guess he
> didn't leave a diary.
>

It seems unlikely that an abbot would own a brook. The other option
is that the Abtsbach was named from the Abtsmühle. I was wondering
what type of monastic order permits an abbot to personally own such
a valuable asset as a Wassermühle?

Did those hydronymic debunkers, after all their merriment, consider
the possibility that Abts- "abbot's" here was a learned etymology?


Torsten