Proto-germanic names for provinces part 2: Germany

[@brittakriep2938]

The Vandals are not died out, there are still some ,van Daalen' in the Netherlands and Belgium.

[@annemaria5126]

Nord-Rhein-Westphalen (maybe with extensions all around) and the Netherlands were one big region where people roamed freely and spoke 'lower german', which evolved to dutch=diets/z, when the present border closed. High german evolved too of course and is spoken in the rest of Germany.

[@sekarmaltum1695]

not trying to come on to you but.. as a german, hearing you say those names is basically ASMR to me (°/////°)

[@sid86588]

IKR

[@Bln-f9u]

Many toponymies in Brandenburg do have a slavic/proto-germanic heritage (prior to the German colonisation of the 12th century).

[@SimonPertus]

The fact that Holstein doesn't mean something like "hohl" (hollow) and "Stein" (stone) bothered me at first. I haven't researched it thoroughly, but this is what English Wikipedia has to say: "Holstein's name comes from the Holcetae, a Saxon tribe mentioned by Adam of Bremen as living on the north bank of the Elbe, to the west of Hamburg. The name means "dwellers in the wood" or "hill-sitters" (Northern Low Saxon: Hol(t)saten; German: Holzsassen)." You were indeed right and it seems that there is also the possibility that it means "hill-sitters" although German Wikipedia does not include this option.

[@Þeudōrīkē]

the "Hol" in Holstein part is the exact same thing as the "Hol" in "Holland". It is indeed counter intuitive. I also first thought that "Holland" meant "hollow land", as in a land with a lot of lakes. But no, it's all about the lumber.

[@Ennocb]

There are sound distortions around 2:50 when covering Leipzig.

[@Ozoal]

KZbin didn't forgive him for his horrible slavic pronunciation, and took revenge this way

[@Þeudōrīkē]

I don't know what happened, it doesn't sound like this on the editing software. Apologies, i can't correct it now unfortunately.

[@hildebrandgotenland4823]

@@Þeudōrīkē Just delete this video, fix it and reupload it^^ Also the video is a bit too quiet, you should make it louder. Else excellent work ofc!

[@theOneRizzolliMick]

It kame from the depths of haljō!

[@Strutability]

Fantastic! Thank you for putting all this effort 😊

[@publicminx]

good work (but the volume is too low) ....

[@c.m.bellman5721]

Can't wait for the Scandinavia video ^^

[@Þeudōrīkē]

Patience my friend, I'll get there, soon enough.

[@RecklawTheAmazing]

"Leipzig comes from 😈😈🔥🔥🧿"

[@exenderlloyd7750]

It would be interesting to include more of what was Germany until 1946 with Prussia, Silesia etc

[@Þeudōrīkē]

Most of the names east of Berlin are of Slavic origin. And those in prussia would probably be of baltic origin. But yeah, it could be something worth the time. I have many other time consuming projects though.

[@marcusjohansen8061]

2 things first your audio is very low 2nd for slesvig in the west where ribe is thats aslo apart of slesvig and the island of als is aswell

[@ulrikschackmeyer848]

Hedging your bets: As I read in a 1955 German atlas: 'Ellsass, teil des Deutches Reiches, zur Zeit unter Französisches vervaltung'. - Alsace, part of the German Reich, currently under French administation.

[@Þeudōrīkē]

I reassure you, I have only shown Elass in this video because I don't plan to make a video about germanic placenames in France, as they arn't common. Not because of some other hidden agenda.

[@naturbursche5540]

Hamburg means stone castle. Ham is the root of hammer, which originally means stone. Lüneburg is named after the Moon God Luna, at least according to medieval folk belief. The city is called Glain in the local (historic but extinct) Slavic dialect, which indeed means clay (the words Glei in German or clay in English are directly related with the Slavic word glina), so Slavs lived in these areas (and even further west in some cases), dispersed among the Germans, which is not a matter of debate but of fact. I doubt though that the German name comes from the Slavic. It would be weird to swallow the G, even for Low German. Pfalz does not come from Palatium, no matter how the Romans want this. However it means a building or settlement made from poles or erected on poles (pole is Pfahl in German). The Palatinate is on the Rhine and the people there used to have houses on stilts. Darmstadt means Colon City or Entrails city, at least that's what the name sounds like. The oldest recorded form of the name is Darmundstat, which could mean "city of Darimund (a personal name)". There are other theories tho. Hesse has some weird place names to offer. Alsace/Elsass comes from the older, certified historic form Edelsaß, which means noble seat. Funny to put a city like Karlsruhe in here that definitely wasn't founded in ancient times.

[@ulrikschackmeyer848]

So, dear Theodor, would I be right in assuming that the Holstein landscape of Ditmarschen (like Det-mold) would be ' the marches of the people'? And thank you from a grateful Dane. As a non-German I just loaded up on my Germannic bragging rights.

[@Þeudōrīkē]

I didn't sturdy this one, but lookin at it, it might rather be something like "the swamp people", but i'm not sure. If you liked this one, make sure to check out my video on Danmark and Sweden i released last week

[@3746463]

2:51 Censored??!

[@Þeudōrīkē]

No, something went wrong during rendering of the video. I have no way of fixing this unfortunately.

[@WIGGER_AESTHETIC_031]

pretty interesting. the cow made me laugh

[@LuciaSims745]

Thanks for making this video. It's really interesting, I learned so much. So, Württemberg was called Werôburgbergaz. Wero = gen.-plural of Weraz: "man". And 😮😮😮 Weraz gave modern "werewolf" (man wolf) 🤯😍😍😍🤩 I really love the German language ❤😊 And the older German languages too. I love all germanic languages and their evolution. ❤😊🥰😍 I am really happy to have been born in Germany 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪❤❤❤😍😍😍

[@Þeudōrīkē]

It wasn't really called Werôburgbergaz. It is the translation of what Württenberg means back into protogermanic.

[@cjhomik7410]

Episch 👍

[@_Nilu__]

2:08 you marked the borders of Pomerania incorrectly. Świnoujście is Polish, not german

[@Þeudōrīkē]

The internet is an unforgiving land. You are correct. Although it's still technically Pomerania, so etymologically it's still ok.

[@_Nilu__]

@@Þeudōrīkē It is part of pommerania in Polish side. If u wanted mark whole pommerania you should mark it to Danzig ( Gdańsk ) or small part to Słupsk

[@c.m.bellman5721]

eh who cares

[@theOneRizzolliMick]

@@c.m.bellman5721 I do. ✋

[@stanislavkino]

You missed Groningen...

[@altair738]

I hope you realise that Alsace is not in Germany... *awkward...*

[@Þeudōrīkē]

Not awkward. I have been living there for 3 years. Of course it is France, and will probably always be so. But culturally it is clearly germanic.