Re: Morimarusa

At 9:19:31 PM on Thursday, January 7, 2010, dgkilday57
wrote:

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>>> In <himilizzi> usw. the Gmc. suffix *-itja apparently
>>> functions as a collective, parallel to its use in OE
>>> <Elmet> 'Elmwood' (cf. Kluge, Nom. Stammb. 2. Aufl. 36).

I meant to address this before. My understanding is that
the OE name is borrowed from Brit. *Elmet- (whence <Elfed>,
the name of a cantref in Dyfed), and that Hamp at some point
suggested that a Brit. *lim(-e:ton) 'elm-grove' might be
involved.

Brian