Frauennamen in alten niederländischen Ortsnamen
Place-names with the names of women as a
first element are rather rare in the early medieval Dutch speaking areas. In
all we have found twenty examples and one that is not sure. Only in one of
the examples do we find a term for a manor (hof), all
others refer to rural items such as meadows, fields, and newly cultivated
lands as their second element. It would seem that the combinations with
female names are younger (11th–12th century) and that the absence of female
names in combination with terms related to manors may have to do with the
Salic laws in the Frankish areas.
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