Re: [tied] Re: Permian

At 12:48:50 PM on Friday, April 21, 2006, g wrote:

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> cf. Ortsnamen _Bremen_ u. Bachnamen _Breme_
> < _brem_ "Sumpf":

[...]

> source (except {} brackets): Bahlow, Hans, Deutsches
> Namenslexikon, Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 65, 1976, 2nd ed.

Bahlow's place-name etymologies are untrustworthy: he had a
Sumpf fetish and identified any number of supposed
Sumpfwörter that aren't generally accepted. (And I'm not
sure that I've seen a single correct etymology of an English
place-name in that book, or in his Deutschlands
Geographische Namenwelt.)

Brian