From: george knysh
Message: 50743
Date: 2007-12-08
>****GK: Does Udolph know of any -leben/ clusters in
>
> I've uploaded (folder -leben,-lev,-löv and -ung-)
> two maps from
> Udolph: Namenkundliche Studien zum Germanenproblem,
> showing the distribution, repectively, of names in
> -leben,-lev,-löv
> and in -ung-.
> I'd like to point out that in Germania they almost
> don't overlap, but
> are concentrated in two large lumps opposing each
> other west of
> Thuringia. Both name types are concentrated west of
> the river Elbe.
> Further there is a large gap between the -leben
> names in Thuringia and
> environs and the -lev/-löv names of southern
> Scandinavia. All this
> fits in nicely with a theory that the
> -leben/-lev/-löv names belong to
> the languages of invaders from the east, who later
> gave up their
> territory when Germania became a Roman province up
> to the Elbe, moving
> to southern Scandinavia to claim new land