Lacing

Anglo-Saxon Pronounciation

h initially is much as we use it: heorte 'heart', habban 'have'. Medially and finally, and when doubled, its pronunciation resembles the 'ch' in Scottish 'loch': bohte 'bought', scóh 'shoe', hlehhan 'laugh'; this medial 'h' often survives as the silent 'gh' of NE, e.g. niht 'night', flyht 'flight', áhte 'ought', etc.. Initially, before consonants, h is used to indicate a 'softer', breathier pronunciation:
- hn- a soft breathing before the 'n': hnutu 'nut'
- hr- a soft breathing before the 'r': hring 'ring'
- hl- a voiceless 'l' like Welsh 'll': hláf 'loaf'
- hw- a voiceless 'w' like Scots 'wh': hwær 'where?'

There is a place in the Drenthe area of the Netherlands called Lassinc.In West Friesland, there is a place called Beetgum.)

Lacing is a stream name in Lockinge

From: Andy Horton I am still having difficulties over this one. How did
>Lancing gets its
>name? Lancinges 1086 and all the names subsequent virtually identical. The
>name from the personal name of Wlenca seems tricky to believe
>because it should be pronounced W + Lenca and why was the W lost?

Addenda: when was the letter "w" introduced to the alphabet? According to Encyclopaedia Britannica the Normans introduced this letter to use for the English sound w. However, this may be misleading because the OE for write is writan.

Because the initial consonant cluster wl- was lost in English during the
Middle English period, simplifying to l- (e.g. _lisp_ from OE _wlispian_).
Compare the development of wr- to r- (in e.g. _write_); likewise gn-, hn-
and cn-/kn- to the modern pronunciation n-, however spelt.

>Maybe the name from Wlenca is acceptable ?

Or, better, an OE *_Wlanc_ masculine personal name (from the adjective
_wlanc_ 'proud').

>I am better on topography that philology. However, can I suggest læce
>meaning people of the swamp? or of the lake (at high tide)?

OE *_læc(c)_ 'stream, bog' historically contains no [n] and would not
account for the recorded spellings or the modern form of Lancing.

Cheers,
Paul

Hello Paul.

Thanks for the information on Lancing. 'n' is used in all spellings of
Lancing since 1086 (since the Normans transcribed the local names into
their documents?), and the origin from Wlanc is much more appealing.

I only "need" to know in detail the local history (lower Adur valley, tidal
reaches) for my own satisfaction.

OE sumpt = marsh and swamp for Sompting seems to be the accepted original
source of the name. However, this does not fit in so well in with the
topography of present day Sompting. (Addenda: This is not that far out as the Cokeham reed beds and marshes are south-east of Sompting.)

Erringham (north of Shoreham) is usually sourced as the home for Erra's
people and it seems to have developed into a separate settlement with a
chapel. However, the possibility did occur to me that the derivation could
have originated from Eringland = arable, ploughed land, or from eriung =
ploughing,tilling. (However, Erra is a name in the historic literature.)

The other locally unclear origin if for the lost harbour/wharfage/possible
settlement of Pende (on the Lancing side of the Adur estuary) where the
origin from pynding = weir occcured to me. The location of Pende is not
known precisely.

Marlipins King Charles II Exhibition at the Marlipins shows an interesting
(well for the locals it is) old, possibly 17th century, map of New Monks
Farm, Lancing, with water channels and sluice gates. I did not know that
this map existed before.

Cheers

Andy Horton.
bmlss@c...
Adur Valley
Adur.htm

LancingRing2009.htmray.hamblett/History/Topon.htm

Place names ending with 'ing' means 'the people of'. The first part may derive from Wlanc, meaning proud or 'imperious', of Hlanc, 'lank' or 'lean', [Mawer and Stenton]. It is also suggested that the word has been affected by the common word 'lance' in use well before 1290.

The reason for the large variation is likely to be due to errors in transcriptions and each writers individual attempt to reproduce his version of the pronounciation of the word Lancing

Date	Spelling	Source	Date	Spelling	Source
1086 1235 1242 1262 1263 1271 1274 1278 1296 1296 1316 c.1320 1320 1327 1332 1354 1359	Lancinges (South) Launcynges Lanzinges Launching Launcynges Launchynge Launcyng Launcinges (North) Launcynges Lancyng Launcing Langinges Lazinges Launcyng Launcyng Launcynge Launcyng	9 7 6 6 7 7 5 5 6 10 5 5 5 11 12 7 7	1361 1377 1384 1385 1395 1404 1413 1497 1503 1524 1568 1595 1627 1641 1705 Present Day	Lanceyng Launsynge Lanncynge Lainsyngge Launcyng Lansynge Lancinges Launsyng Launsyng Lawensyng Lawnsinge Lawnsinge Launsinge Launsing Lanceing Lancing	5 5 13 6 7 6 7 7 5 8 14 6 15 16 17

5	R.G. Roberts, M.A., The Place Names of Sussex, 1914
6	Place Names of Sussex, English Place Name Society, Vol VI (ed. by Mawer and Stenton), part 1,p.200
7	Feet of Fines,Sussex Record Society.(S.R.S.),Vols.2,5 and 23.
8	Subsidy Rolls, S.R.S.,Vol.56, p.78
9	Domesday Book
10	Subsidy Lists, S.R.S., Vol X, p.61
11	Ibid., p.162
12	Ibid., p.276
13	Cartwright
14	Post mortem Inquisitions, S.R.S., Vol.III, No. 49
15	S.A.S., Lancing Deeds
16	Protestation Returns, S.R.S., Vol. V, p.111.
17	Lloyd v Ingram.

Source: A History of Lancing - R.G.P. Kerridge

This is a change peculiar to Anglo-Frisian and Old Saxon (Ingvaeonic),
>whereby n was lost before the Germanic voiceless spirants f, th and s, with
>compensatory lengthening and nasalization of the preceding short vowel, so
>Germanic *dugunthi- became Anglo-Frisian *duguthi-, with a long u. Compare
>OE muth [long u] 'mouth', from Germanic *munthaz, with Gothic munths and Old
>High German mund, which kept the n. The u of the second syllable would have
>been shortened and the final i lost in Primitive Old English by regular
>sound change.

Shrewsbury - has one of the most complex developments of English place names and illustrates the changes wrought in Old English words by Anglo-Norman scribes who could not pronounce them. Recorded 1016 as Scrobbesbyrig, it originally may have meant "the fortified place in (a district called) The Scrub." The initial consonant cluster was impossible for the scribes, who simplified it to sr-, then added a vowel to make it easier still. The name was also changed by Anglo-Norman loss or metathesis of liquids in words containing -l-, -n-, or -r- (also evident in the derivatives of O.Fr. Berengier "bear-spear" -- O.H.G. Beringar -- name of one of the paladins in the Charlemagne romances and a common given name in England 12c. and 13c., which has come down in surnames as Berringer, Bellanger, Benger, etc.). Thus Sarop- became Salop- and in the 12c. and 13c. the overwhelming spelling in government records was Salopesberie, which accounts for the abbreviation Salop for the modern county. During all this, the inhabitants (as opposed to the scribes) still pronounced it properly, and regular sound evolutions probably produced a pronunciation something like Shrobesbury (which turns up on a 1327 patent roll). After a predictable -b- to -v- (a vowel in the Middle Ages) to -u- shift, the modern spelling begins to emerge 14c. and is fully established 15c

http://www.geocities.com/etymonline/s6etym.htm

ly produced a pronunciation something like Shrobesbury (which turns up on a 1327 patent roll). After a predictable -b- to -v- (a vowel in the Middle Ages) to -u- shift, the modern spelling begins to emerge 14c. and is fully established 15c

http://www.geocities.com/etymonline/s6etym.htm