Re: English Pomeranians?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@...> wrote:
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> At 11:53:24 PM on Friday, August 27, 2010, Rick McCallister
> wrote:
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> > 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'.

In how many of the English *wen(d/t)-, *win(d/t)- place names that you have derivations for can you exclude a derivation from Wend, Wind "Wend"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wends
on phonetic grounds (ie not semantic) alone?

Torsten

What other "Wendish" type topos could one expect to find in England, supposing they exist? What are the Wendish topo elements that remain in the German Baltic and Schleswig-Holstein/Slesvig-Holsten et al.? I can recall star- and gard- off the top of my head, but surely there are many others. Who knows, maybe Starbucks "Old Bucks, Old Beech?" could be one of them ;p