Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?

At 6:35:07 PM on Thursday, April 10, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

>>> 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?

No, that's modern <Bellingroth> recorded in 1280 as
<Belkinrode>. There is a masc. name <Balko>.

Brian