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> On 17. Apr 2019, at 04:19, Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> 3) Liechtenstein: 39 nodes. 8 have a word or suffix that defines a
> specific feature like "wald" = wood, "berg" = hill/mountain. I don't
> know German well enough to guess any of the others, or they appear to
> be just a name



it doesn’t necessarily mean that the feature the name (apparently) comes from 
is still relevant. Some examples: Hamburg, Nürnberg, Schweinsfurt, Greifswald, 
...
It is not all that different for smaller places, generally you need local 
knowledge to interpret the situation reliably.


Cheers, Martin 
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