Leite (slope)
A Leite denotes a mountain slope or slope. The word used today in the Upper German-speaking area stands in particular for a rather steep mountain slope, as an embankment , in the mountains also a mountain flank that was previously used as pasture for sheep or goats.
The word Leite ( f ) goes back to the ahd. (H) lîta and the mhd. Lîte and means "the inclined one". In Upper German the form Leiten is also used , in Low German names Liet stands for a slope.
The word is extremely productive in corridor and settlement names. Examples are:
- Leiten (several dozen; 38 settlement names, only one field name in Austria),
- Leitner (several dozen; 30 settlement names in Austria),
- Leite is rare - which shows the dominance of the Upper German -n-form ( Leite is a reverse high German )
- high Liet (h) , Low German field name, for example Hohe Lieth between Cuxhaven and Bremerhaven
As a farm name , the root also goes over to numerous names of origin : Leitner is the 21st most common family name in Austria , other spellings are Leidner, Leittner, Leuthner , Leutner or, very occasionally, Laitner . Less common (or of another origin) is - according to the form Leite - ladder . There are also countless compositions here.
On the Leite areas, especially if they have been lying fallow for a long time, a characteristic flora of a dry hillside has often developed. Examples of corridors that are therefore under nature protection are:
- Hechenberger Leite ( NSG , Bavaria)
- Arnsberger Leite (NSG, Altmuehltal , Bavaria)
- Hohe Leite (a ridge near Hasslach , Germany)
- Berghofer Leite (Ostallgäu)
- Alte Leite (NSG, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony)
- Donauleiten , the antecedent breakthrough valley of the Bavarian-Austrian Danube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Duden : Leite ( online ).
- ^ Albert Heintze : The German family names: historically, geographically, linguistically. 2nd edition, bookstore of the orphanage, Halle a. P. 1903, p. 188.
- ↑ a b Geonam Austria , online for example at AMAP , geoland.at or the Landes-GIS