Forgot the list again - Sorry! -----Original Message----- From: Roy Louis D Cox [mailto:roy.cox@btinternet.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 10:39 PM To: 'Ian Buckley' Subject: RE: [OEL] Ac A very good evening - Very sound sense and much more likely than my thoughts! Just goes to show the vagaries of language but one question remains! Why is this ending not noted in my c.1900 French Dictionary, perhaps the grammar section was not considered to exceed that far? Kind Regards June & Roy (SANHS Member No 1066) http://www.btinternet.com/~roy.cox/index.htm -----Original Message----- From: Ian Buckley [mailto:Ianbuckley@uko2.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 7:39 PM To: OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [OEL] Ac To clarify the 'ac' question: 'Ac' seems to have been a Celtic suffix denoting 'place of' (rather like AS 'tun'). The placename's first element is almost always a personal name. In other regions of France it survives as "-at" in Auvergne, "-ach" or" -ig" in Alsace, "-é" in Poitou and Brittany, "-ey" in Champagne, and "-y" in the area south of Paris. I would guess that Welsh placenames ending '-og' are similar. IB ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== OLD-ENGLISH Web Page http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/