Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?

At 3:58:35 PM on Thursday, April 10, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

[...]

>> Ernst Schwarz, Deutsche Namenforschung II:159 notes that
>> in northern Germany many names going back to OHG <-hûsen>
>> are officially spelled with NHG <-hausen> but have
>> <-husen> and <-sen> in the local dialects, and I've found
>> a number of examples of <-sen> names going back to
>> earlier <-husen>.

> He must mean OS?

My slip of the 'pen', not his.

[...]

> Belsen seems to have been Bellenhusen too.
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belsen_%28Bergen%29
> No further explanation of the first element.

Probably some masculine name, either with a weak genitive or
with the suffix <-ing>, but I'd hate to guess which of the
many possibilities, having run into <Bellinghoven> (from
<Baldo> or <Beldo>, <Belheim> (from <Ballo>), and
<Bellingroth> (<Belkinrode> 1280).

Brian