Marriage (river name)
Marriage is a river name that is particularly common in East Frisia.
It designates a flowing, small body of water, such as the Sandhorster Ehe or the Westerender Ehe . The name is derived from the Old Frisian term ē for "river" or "water" and is related to the Old High German word aha , which is modified as a river name or component of the river name Aa , Aach , Ach , -ach , Ache (n) , -ache ( n) is now represented in large numbers throughout the German-speaking area. See also the list of waters named Aa .
According to Albrecht Greule's German book of water names, there is the same etymon for some of the river names marriage :
- The name of the well (Great) marriage mentioned marriage Bach , left tributary of the Aisch below Neustadt , go to a 1,023 occupied Eha back that spans Ee has developed into the present name form.
- The name of a right tributary of the Ems - what is probably meant is the Westerender Ehe , which today flows into the Dollart via artificial underflows with another name in Emden - goes back to an older Ee , which is documented in 1312 in the compound Emutha 'Ehe- Münd ', in the 9th century . Century still as Amuthon .
In addition, however, there are also bodies of water with the name Ehe , Ehebach , etc., which go back to the root of the meaning right, law contained in today's word marriage . The motive for the designation was that the waters were territorial borders or ran close to such.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Arend Remmers : From Aaltukerei to Zwischenmooren. The settlement names between Dollart and Jade . Verlag Schuster, Leer 2004, ISBN 3-7963-0359-5 , p. 256.
- ^ Albrecht Greule , Deutsches Gewässernamenbuch , De Gruyter, De Gruyter Mouton, 2014, p. 114, ISBN 9783110190397