Re: English Pomeranians?

At 11:53:24 PM on Friday, August 27, 2010, Rick McCallister
wrote:

> OK, but what about England? Do we see any *Wendelthorps,
> *Weldelthrups?, *Wendelthwaites, *Wendelbys in Eastern
> England? Could some of the Winthrops and Winthorps
> "Friend's village" be folk etymologies for *Wend-thorp?
> Winthorp, after all is a bilingual formation, as normally
> seen, AS win + ODanish thorp.

<Winthorpe> in Lincs. is from the OE masculine name <Wina>
plus one of ON <þorp>, ODan <thorp>, and OE <þorp> ~ <þrop>;
<Winthorpe> in Notts. is either from OE <Wigmund> or ON
<Vígmundr> plus one of the 'thorp' words. In neither case
does the name actually have to be bilingual, and neither
is from OE <wine> 'friend'.

Brian