Speteby i Lerbo: English: Speteby in Lerbo: English: Speteby in Lerbo

Strandberg, Svante

doi:10.69489/nob.v110i.23464

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Namn och bygd 2022 – Tidskrift för nordisk namnforskning

Eva Nyman (ed.), Staffan Nyström (ed.), Inge Særheim (ed.)

Publisher Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur

Series Namn och bygd, 110

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Published 2023
Issn 0077-2704
Namn och bygd, 110
Type Paperback
216 pages
Swedish

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Speteby i Lerbo: English: Speteby in Lerbo - English: Speteby in Lerbo

Strandberg, Svante

Source system: Publicera | Published 2022-12-16 | Pages 19–26

Abstract

Speteby is a large village in the parish of Lerbo, Södermanland. It is part of a Bronze and Iron Age settlement. Older texts refer to the village as spitaby 1366, spitaby 1367 and spetaby 1453. The author is inclined to link the first element of Speteby with words such as OSw. spit n., f. for ‘pointed staff; stick; spit’ and the Modern Swedish spita f. ‘pole for hanging cereal crop to dry’. He entertains the idea that Speteby before the final element -by ‘farm; village’ contains an older name for nearby Lake Spetebysjön from OSw. *Spite m. ‘the pole-like lake’ or – rather – ‘the lake with the tip; the lake with the pointed bay,’ or similar.

Keywords

village names; lake names; words including spit- ‘something pointed’; derivatives; an-stem; semantics; metaphors; topographic studies