Re: Rozwadowski's Change

Trond Engen:

> And while I'm at speculating, there's a number of Norwegian <Jordal>
> toponyms (< <hjór->) that AFAIK are still unsufficiently explained.
> My sources are old: Rygh quotes Olsen in pointing out that they're
> all peripheral to the main agricultural centers. Olsen (and Rygh)
> suggests a somewhat irregular development from *hjörðudalr <- *hjarða
> "livestock river", but might it be "tenure valley"?

No, I don't like it. Maybe something with lodging could do, but without
both a morphological deduction of the semantics and a clear idea of
phonology it's nothing.

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Trond Engen