An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/-aff

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, A
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

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This annotated version expands the abbreviations in the original entry -aff.

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2521580An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, A — -affJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

-aff, suffix used to form names of rivers (Erlaff, Old High German Eril-affa, Aschaff, Old High German Asc-affa), and of places (especially in Franconian and Hessian, compare Honeff), allied to which -ep, p (also Westphalian), occurs as an unchanged Low German form, e.g. in Lennep. The base *apa is Keltic (equivalent to Latin aqua, ‘water,’ Gothic ahwa, ‘river’).