There are many examples of these including: Cambridge is named after the river Cam and literally means the area where there was a bridge over the river Cam.Aberdeen is named after the river Dee and literally means “Mouth of the Dee”.Some places are named after specific rivers, for example: This alludes to the portions of land that jut out into the open water like a nose into the open air. The term “ness” as was made famous by Loch Ness and also Iverness literally means “nose”. The mouth is not the only body part that is used to describe certain locations. The German equivalent is the suffix –mund. Such places include Plymouth and Bournemouth. Places with “–mouth” on the end are likely to be talking about the mouth of a river. Stanmore which means stoney (Stan) lake or pool (More) in Old English.Windermere which literally means Vinandr’s lake”, from the Old Norse name Vinandr.Places that are named for their valleys may include the following synonyms for valleys:Ī “mere” or “more” is an Old English word for a pond, lake or pool. Corruption of the word is what happened for the name of the London area of Willesden which should really be Willesdon because it got its name as a result of being situated on a hill. Note that sometimes don became corrupted to “–den” which has a different meaning as is addressed below. Places with the suffix “–don” or “–dun” come from the word dun which means hill in Old English.
Why are there german words in english full#
The full phrase “Tel Aviv” means Hill of Spring. “Tel”, as in Tel Aviv, means hill in Biblical Hebrew. Examples of places with “how” in them: Greenhow, Gledhow, Howe “How” (originally spelled haugr) is an Old Norse word for a hill or a mound. the place Malvern which literally means “bald hill”. In some cases “berg” has evolved into berry, bury, and borough, although usually these are derived from a different root, “burg”, which has another meaning as will be discussed below.
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