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Re: Bamber

by Amphelise (Chrisell)

6/27/2013, 1:30 PM

in reply to a message by Caprice

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamber_Bridge):

The name derives from the Old English "bēam" and "brycg", which probably means "tree-trunk bridge".

I'm not sure why it would be tree-trunk rather than beam, but still!

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- Anneza

6/28/2013, 1:11 AM

Beam and boom (the moving barrier) are cognates of German Baum and Dutch boom. So that's probably it. Like a hornbeam being originally a horn 'boom', so calling it a hornbeam tree is etymologically repetitive. (Clears throat. Resumes normal life.)

- Caprice

6/27/2013, 1:51 PM

Thanks! nm

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