From Abbegeasterkeatting to Zansterpijpje. -ster in Northern Geographical Names

This article deals with the suffix -ster, as it occurs in geographical names, appellatives & adjectives in the northern part of the Dutch language area. Attention will be paid to its etymology & geographical spread, as well as to aspects of the morphology & phonology of this suffix &...

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Published in:Taal en tongval 2006-01, Vol.19, p.71-95
Main Author: Hinskens, Frans
Format: Article
Language:dut
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Summary:This article deals with the suffix -ster, as it occurs in geographical names, appellatives & adjectives in the northern part of the Dutch language area. Attention will be paid to its etymology & geographical spread, as well as to aspects of the morphology & phonology of this suffix & its derivates. It is shown how -ster, like the closely related suffix -stra which used to derive family names, resulted from the historical grammaticalization of an Old Frisian genitive plural form. Synchronically, geographical names derived with -ster appear to be interesting in several respects. -ster's morphological valency turns out to be prosodically conditioned, like in the case of the -stra suffix. Morphologically, these names, appellatives & adjectives hardly differ from 'regular' words, phonologically they do not appear to differ at all - again, just like the -stra formations. It can therefore be established that they are part of the web of words of Frisian & Dutch. Tables, Appendixes, References. Adapted from the source document
ISSN:0039-8691