Tom Ikins wrote:
> What is the current thinking on the etymology and conjectural forms leading up to the published early forms of the river name Meon?
Other than PNRB and their amended form *Moina, I've only come across one author (Moralejo) that associates Meon with the standard list of place-names under the root mei-; the German river Main, etc.
Could thus river-name Meon be a name transplanted from Germany by incoming Anglo-Saxons?
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