Cliff (toponym)

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In topographical names, cliffs denote places with embankments or slopes up to rock faces .

etymology

It is a Romansh loan word that has its origin in the forms clivus / clevus ('slope'). Through its Middle Low German forms, the term is etymologically related to cliff , as can be found in cliff coast , a littoral cliff, but also the geomorphological - geological term cliff (eroded remnant of the ceiling).

Examples and dissemination

Spellings are Klif, Klef, Kleff or Klev , in older spelling also as Clif, Clef or Cleff.

One example is the Kleff on the Ruhr slope of the Syberg in the Ardey Mountains near Syburg above the Hengsteysee. Historically, the terrain names can also have been transferred to place names, as in the example of Kleves . The Saarland form Klœf can be found on the Cloef above the Saar loop near Orscholz .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rhenish dictionary. On behalf of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, the Society for Rhenish History and the Provincial Association of the Rhine Province on the basis of the collection started by Johannes Franck and supported by all circles of the Rhenish people, edited and edited by Josef Müller, Heinrich Dittmaier, Rudolf Schützeichel and Mattias Zender, Volume 4, Bonn / Berlin 1928–1971
  2. a b Monika Buchmüller-Pfaff: Names in the borderland - methods, aspects and objectives in the study of Lorraine-Saarland toponomics , Francia 18/1 (1991), Francia-Online: Institut historique allemand de Paris - German Historical Institute Paris: online resource
  3. ^ Max Pfister: Old Romanesque relics in the eastern and southern Galloromania, in the Rhenish dialects, in the Alpine region and in northern Italy  ; in: Sieglinde Heinz, Ulrich Wandruszka [Hrsg.]: Facts and theories: Contribution to the roman. u. general linguistic science ; Festschr. for Helmut Stimm on his 65th birthday, Tübingen 1982, pp. 219-230, ISBN 3-87808-936-8
  4. Hjalmar Falk , Alf Torp : Vocabulary of the Germanic language unit , 5th, unchangeable. Ed., Unchanged. Reprint d. 4th edition from 1909, Göttingen, 1979, ISBN 3-525-26405-4
  5. ^ Frank Ahnert: Introduction to Geomorphology , 4th ed., Ulmer UTB, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-8252-8103-8