The toponym Merseburg and its mystery. ‒ The article is focused on
the history of the local name Merseburg, the name of a town at the river Saale
in Eastern Germany. Because this river was a borderline between Germanic
and Slavonic tribes the possibilities of Slavic origin are discussed and finally
negated. The historical forms documented since more than thousand years
allow the reconstruction of an already Germanic or Old Low German name
*Marsiburg and later Mersiburg with the meaning ‘high and secure place’. This
new proposal is founded on facts from the history of the German language
and dialectology.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:17185 |
| Date | 15 February 2018 |
| Creators | Hengst, Karlheinz |
| Publisher | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Namenforschung (GfN), Universität Leipzig |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | German |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-170739, qucosa:17073 |
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