Der Gewässerund Siedlungsname Luhe

• Authors: Albrecht Greule , Wolfgang Janka

Title variants

EN

The toponym Luhe

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

This article introduces a new interpretation of the toponym Luhe (name of a river and a town in Eastern Bavaria). The linguistic analysis – based on historic spellings and the dialectal pronunciation – leads to the reconstruction of a Celtic hydronym *LōJā.

Keywords

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onomastics

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 49
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 125-130
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Albrecht Greule

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

author

Wolfgang Janka

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic