Interesting, but it seems a little unlikely to me for a stream-name or
river-name in Britain to be Germanic.
Martin
On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 12:19:09 -0000, Tom Ikins <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Lipscomb might contain a lost stream-name Lupia as in Lippe. There is
> also the lost name Lipping Le, ERN 256. Lipwood in Northumberland where
> Honeycrook Burn is the stream and Ravennas *Lupocoria Stanegate fortlet
> recorded as Lopocarium next Corie (Coria) Corbridge. Also, Faliliev
> Lupodunum/Lupodunum Ladenburg.
>
> ---- Keith Briggs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>
>> If DEPN is correct, we might have a chance of explaining the surname
>> Lipscomb as arising from a confusion of plosives in a place-name
>> starting /litĘ/-. If not, where does the surname come from? (It has
>> a Surrey-Sussex-Kent distribution.)
>>
>> Keith
>>
>>
>
> Tom Ikins
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