I picked up this issue from a grammatical perspective in:
Coates, R. (1997) The plural of singular -ing: an alternative application of Old English -ingas. In Alexander R. Rumble and A. D. Mills, eds, Names, places and people. An onomastic miscellany for John McNeal Dodgson. Stamford: Paul Watkins, 26-49.
Richard
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Subject: [EPNL] -ing- names without personal name as base?
Hi all,
I'm interested in digging up some dirt on -ing- place-names that fairly clearly _don't_ likely have a personal name as a base. I realize there is occasionally some controversy over where a particular base element in an -ing- name really is a personal name or not, but at worst the consensus seems to be that personal names _typically_ for the base in -ing-names. Still, I think there might be some where the base is something else - a geographical feature or something. Perhaps things like "wellinga stane" in charter S 50 (from OE "well(a)"?), or Tininghami (from the hydronym Tyne?), or "stænincg mearce" in charter S 168 (from OE "stan"?).
Any thoughts or pointers?
Cheers,
Carl
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