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Of course, my silly error! K ________________________________ From: The English Place-Name List <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Richard Coates <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 06 November 2019 12:20 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Der Flussname Themse und seine Sippe Forgive the pedantry: ... the British stem *tam-, more recenlty *tav-, as we shall see below, really means nothing more than 'water, stream'. RC From: The English Place-Name List <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Keith Briggs Sent: 06 November 2019 12:12 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [EPNL] Der Flussname Themse und seine Sippe 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]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> on behalf of Martin Counihan <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Sent: 06 November 2019 11:45 To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[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<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublikationen.badw.de%2Fde%2F008932911.pdf&data=02%7C01%7CRichard.Coates%40UWE.AC.UK%7C1452fed6fa9f4f58f70808d762b29c18%7C07ef1208413c4b5e9cdd64ef305754f0%7C0%7C1%7C637086391571370228&sdata=Qw969ya3pSuhCZrO1Vo0tRPEQjig3i9%2FprdhXRCsCjg%3D&reserved=0>. 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<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F4490160%3Fseq%3D1%23metadata_info_tab_contents&data=02%7C01%7CRichard.Coates%40UWE.AC.UK%7C1452fed6fa9f4f58f70808d762b29c18%7C07ef1208413c4b5e9cdd64ef305754f0%7C0%7C1%7C637086391571380221&sdata=NURwxmZ8rigfUBp9j2wnmUJXYr5lhICTBKu2tJY3%2FXk%3D&reserved=0> 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 ________________________________ 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