Namen Kadaň - Kaaden - Kaden auf beiden Seiten des Erzgebirges in Böhmen und Sachsen sprachhistorisch betrachtet

• Authors: Karlheinz Hengst

Title variants

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Names Kadaň - Kaaden - Kaden on the both sides of the border between Bohemia and Saxony from a language-historical point of view

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

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The personal name Kaden, usually interpreted as originating from toponyms, frequently appears in the Central-East German area. The place-name Kaden refers to several communities in German; Kadaň (in German Kaaden) is the name of a town in Northwest Bohemia. The author deals with the interpretation of the name of this town, recorded for the first time in 1183. A pre-Slavonic origin of the name is considered in the article. The suggested interpretation is based on the supposed original form *Katodunum from Celtic catu ,fight, battle‘ and *dunon ,stronghold, fortification‘.

Keywords

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onomastics

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 220-226
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Karlheinz Hengst

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