At 2:50:25 AM on Tuesday, April 1, 2008, Rick McCallister
wrote:
[...]
> Note that the Norman French changed the endearing name of
> Snottingham into Nottingham --or so I've read,
Actually <Snotingaha:m> 'the homestead of the Snotingas, the
people called after Snot'; the loss of [s] in [sn] is
attributed to Anglo-Norman influence.
> and I think there was a Stuttingham > Tuttingham (vel
> sim.)
Don't know that one, but Tutbury is in record as:
Toteberia 1086
Totesbery 1140x50
Totesberie 1141
Tuttebury 1200
Stuttesberia 1139x60
Stuteberia 1176
Either this was originally <(on) Stu:tesbyrig> '(at) Stu:t's
fortified place or manor', with Anglo-Norman loss of initial
[s] in [st], or there were two names for the place that were
eventually conflated. (The other name would have been
<(on) Tuttanbyrig> '(at) Tutta's ...'.
Brian