Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?

>
> > 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).

Is that *Bellingroth > Belkinrode, or?

The annoying thing is the Badilecca (> Belecke) might be the
explanation also for the B- in Belsenbilk etc. Those Welsch- names
badly need an explanation, and a derivation from Volcae would assume
that the expanding Germani there saw the locals as being somehow
Volcae which they can't have done. And if we assume a later expansion
we won't be able to explain why the Wint- and the Welsch- names don't
overlap on the map.


Torsten