-Castle
The syllable -burg is a place name ending that is more common in German-speaking countries. It has a similar shape in other European languages.
Germanic origin
In many cases place names on -burg will be derived from the term castle .
The German word Burg originally meant "fortified city" or "knight's castle". In Old Norse , borg can also mean "hill (where there is a residential complex)".
Slavic origin
In the East Low German settlement area, a place name with -burg can also have a Slavic origin. There a Slavic place name ending -boŕ could become Low German -borch (which corresponds to High German -burg ).
Examples:
- Kaseburg (in the district of Usedom-Wollin), in 1265 Carsiborch , emerged from a reconstructed place name Karsiboŕ
- possibly Ratzeburg , from a reconstructed place name Ratiboŕ
- Roseburg (in the Duchy of Lauenburg district), from a reconstructed place name Rozboŕ
See also: Deutsche Ostsiedlung .
See also
Web links
Wiktionary: -burg - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Kluge, Etymological Dictionary of the German Language , completely revised by Elmar Seebold, 22nd edition, Berlin and New York 1989; Keyword castle
- ↑ a b Walter Kaestner, Low German-Slavic Interferences ; in: Handbook for Low German Linguistics and Literature Studies , ed. by Gerhard Cordes and Dieter Möhn, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-503-01645-7 , pp. 678-729; P. 709 = Section 3.1.2.3