Zum abgegangenen Ortsnamen †Beikheim (Altlkr. Staffelstein)
The extinct place name †Beikheim (former district Staffelstein)
Author(s): Harald BichlmeierSubject(s): Historical Linguistics
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro jazyk český
Keywords: Bavarian-Slavic place names; integrational processes in phonology; phonology and morphology of Slavic place-names; historical phonology of Slavic
Summary/Abstract: Beikheim is the name of a vanished settlement in Upper Franconia (North East Ba¬varia). The article compares a (traditional) Slavic etymology with two German(ic) ones proposed recently in a 2015 Ph.D. thesis by J. Andraschke (published in 2016) and evaluates them. Although the Slavic one has the disadvantage of a somewhat unusual substitutional process CSlav. *y → OHG ī (instead of more common CSlav. *y → OHG ū, ǖ), it can be shown that the Slavic etymology is clearly to be favoured over the two German(ic) ones: †Beikheim goes back to a place-name CSlav. *Bykovъ, -a, -o [*gordъ, *vьsь, *město], most probably feminine CSlav. *Bykova [*vьsь] ‘Byk’s [village]’.
Journal: Acta Onomastica
- Issue Year: LXI/2020
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 403-416
- Page Count: 14
- Language: German
