Hamlet (place name)

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Hamlet is a place name . It refers to (originally) small settlements and is particularly widespread in the south-west of the German-speaking area.

Name customer

origin

The word Weiler and the toponym Weiler are traced back to the Latin word villa , villarium 'country estate' by some , while others refer to the Germanic - Old High German wilari ' farmstead ' (from hwilan (pronounced [ ˈxwiː.lɑn ], “chwilan”), linger ').

Another etymology but is Weilheim and like formations based. Here the standard formation on a personal name with the root Wil (as in Wilhelm ) can be assumed: 'Hof des Wil'. Thus Weilheim in Baden 929 as wilhaim documented, the neighboring Nöggenschwiel 1279 as a villa noecherswiler .

distribution

Distribution of the late Latin villare in France
Spread of the late Latin villa in France

The term hamlet has been spreading in the German-speaking area since the early Middle Ages - from the 7th century ( Franconian land acquisition ) to the 9th century (expansion of the Franconian Empire to Bavaria, later also to Austria and Saxony). The word only partially takes part in the New High German diphthongization i (e)  →  ei .

Are linguistically related particularly in Switzerland and in Alsace frequently encountered place names with suffixes -wil (l / s), -wyl, -viller ( -viller (s) or -villier (s) in northern France).

In France, old place names on -viller (s) , -villier (s) , -villar (d) , -ville are common in the north, which is strongly influenced by Franconia - especially in villages, which are almost always associated with a Germanic personal name as the first component are. In western, central and south-eastern France, on the other hand, only a few relatively new cities have names ending in -ville , corresponding to today's general term ville 'city'.

Variants and derivatives

Related forms:

Hamlet also appears as a component in compound place names, for example:

Many surnames of people originally refer to a place with such a name (name of origin ), for example:

  • Rothweiler, Weilerspacher, Wieler, Eckenschwyler, Leutwyler

Places and districts called Weiler

Germany

Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

  • Weiler am See , hamlet of the town of Feuchtwangen, district of Ansbach
  • Weiler im Allgäu , district of Weiler-Simmerberg, Lindau district (Lake Constance)

North Rhine-Westphalia

Rhineland-Palatinate

Saarland

Austria

Belgium

  • Hamlet (French Weyler ), district of Arel , Province of Luxembourg

France

Luxembourg

  • Weiler (Pütscheid) (French: Weiler-lès-Putscheid), place in the municipality of Pütscheid in the canton of Vianden
  • Weiler (Wintger) , place in the municipality of Wintger , in the canton of Clervaux
  • Weiler zum Turm (French: Weiler-la-Tour), place and commune in the canton of Luxembourg

Castles of the name

literature

  • Henning Kaufmann: Formation and emphasis on German place names. 2nd edition, Munich 1977

Web links

Wiktionary: -weiler  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Konrad Kunze : dtv-Atlas onenology. dtv-Band 2490. dtv, 1998 (1st edition), ISBN 3-423-03266-9 , p. 91 (distribution map : p. 92 u).
  2. ↑ For Duden's dictionary of origin of the German language , the Old High German appellative -vīllāri was derived from the Milton-Latin villare , which itself comes from the Latin villa .
  3. ↑ In southwest France to Languedoc , the sometimes completely French form -ville , the semi-French form -vielle , -fielle and the Occitan -viala can be found.