Articoli correlati a Lincolnshire notes and queries Volume 9
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ... pronunciation. 4. Gunness is the result of an etymological conclusion, founded, without real reason, on the common pronunciation of the word. The form Gunnas may be regarded as a transitional spelling between the old form Gunhouse and the new Gunness. 5. Gunhouse is by analogy supported by neighbouring names, e.g., Mutton House, Neap House, etc. I submitted the first four of these arguments to Professor Skeat, by sending him the letters of those who propounded them (the fifth argument was only produced in answer to Prof. Skeat's Skeat's opinion, and I deal with that, to the best of my ability, later). I also sent him the information with which Mr. Peacock had so kindly furnished me. In reply, I received a most courteous and lengthy letter from the Professor, who writes as follows: "The only thing of the slightest value is the spelling le Gunness feeldes of 1523, first because it is far the oldest, and secondly because the use of the 'le' suggests that it was copied from some much older document. Note also the spellings of 1570, 1582, 1612; they all practically condemn the suffix house, which is in fact seldom used in any really old name. I have explained nearly all the names in Beds., Cambs., Hunts., and Herts., and collected all the suffixes: in none of them does the suffix 'house' occur (nor yet 'ness.') Does the Anglo Saxon hus, a house, occur at all in place names? Surely the words used were 'ham ' and 'worth,' 1 hale' and 'hirn,' 'ton' and 'stead.' No evidence is of much use unless it is earlier than 1300, and even then it ought to be in a document written by an English scribe. For even Domesday Book abounds with mis-spellings which are only intelligible to the Anglo Saxon student. I doubt if you can put it right now, it is rather late in the day...
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