From: tgpedersen
Message: 56380
Date: 2008-04-01
>Is Tutta a Germanic name?
> 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 ...'.