Delf (ditch)

Delf is an old name for a (water) ditch . It was common in both Middle Dutch and Middle Low German and has its roots in West Germanic .

Even today there are many place , field and waterway names in the Netherlands ( Delft , Delfzijl ) and in northern Germany ( Ratsdelft , Falderndelft , Delm , Delve , Delvenau , the Delf district of Finnentrop , the Delfshausen district of Rastede , the Delftor exit of Itzehoe , the Delft or Delftstrom in Cuxhaven ), which go back to this word.

literature

• Wolfgang Laur : Historisches Ortsnamelexikon von Schleswig-Holstein , 2nd edition, Neumünster 1992, p. 208.
• Jürgen Udolph : onenological studies on the German problem , Berlin 1994, pp. 25 to 31.