It's very dangerous to reduce nearly 1000pp in this way, but there is this on page 394: > ... der britische Stamm *tam -, jünger *tav-, wie wir unten sehen werden, eigentlich nichts weiter als 'Wasser, Fluß' bedeutet. ... the British stem *tam-, earlier *tav-, as we shall see below, really means nothing more than 'water, stream'. Keith ________________________________ From: The English Place-Name List <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Martin Counihan <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 06 November 2019 11:45 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Der Flussname Themse und seine Sippe Thank you! It appears to be a wonderful piece of work. But since I read German only very haltingly, could someone please tell me, in a very few words, what Forster thinks "Thames" means? Regards, Martin Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2019 at 10:59 AM From: "Richard Coates" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Der Flussname Themse und seine Sippe For all those who have despaired of finding a copy of Max Forster's epic: the Bavarian Academy of Sciences has now put it online at https://publikationen.badw.de/de/008932911.pdf. Sorry if I'm the last one to realize! Richard Richard Coates Bristol Centre for Linguistics, University of the West of England Bristol BS16 1QY, UK Projects: Survey of English Place-Names (BA/AHRC) http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~aezins//survey/<http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~aezins/survey/> Family Names of the United Kingdom (AHRC, funded 2010-16) Sounds Bristolian (Bristol Centre for Linguistics) The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (Bristol Centre for Linguistics) https://www.jstor.org/stable/4490160?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents t: 44 (0)1173 283278 e: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> w: https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/RichardCoates [UWE logos] ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the EPNL list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=EPNL&A=1 ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the EPNL list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=EPNL&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the EPNL list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=EPNL&A=1