[tied] Re: Permian

From: tgpedersen
Message: 44343
Date: 2006-04-21

> So 'the farm
> of the Riverbank-ingas' is not an impossible type of English
placename,
> but, first, OE *beorm is attested neither as an appellative meaning
> 'bank/edge...' nor as the name of a river or a region.

Interesting. That means *beorma- is either the name Beorma or
something foreign and imported. I hereby declare the latter option to
be perfectly natural and completely regular. ;-)


Torsten

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