German Family Names in Kentucky Place NamesIn Kentucky, as elsewhere in the United States, both natural and cultural features of the landscape often bear names that are borrowed family names; approximately half of the specific elements in Kentucky's place names are family names. Most names in such a detailed list as Field's are "little" names, to use the late George R. Stewart's appropriate term: names of minor features, little known beyond neighborhoods, and recorded only on large-scale maps. persons commemorated in such place names were almost all local residents or others associated with the localities at the time when the names were given, but otherwise unknown. Usually they were pioneer settlers, and their identities may be forgotten in their old neighbourhoods unless they have left descendants still living there |
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AMERICAN NAME SOCIETY appear authentic forms authentic German family authentic German names authentic name authentic variant Bach become Berger British names cent cited close sound colonial consonants corrupt variants corrupted names Cushaw dieresis digraph diphthong distortion Emberry ending in ley English names evidently family names line Field's Guide Finding List following list forenames Fugate Garrich German family names German origin German pronunciation Gose Harshfield Hauk Hinks Hymon identified International Phonetic Alphabet Kentucky names Kentucky place names Kimper list of immigrants mann maps medial Nailor Naker names ending names recorded names with initial open รถ open vowels parentheses Pennsylvania Dutch Pennsylvania German Pennsylvania records PG dialect PG pronunciation Phonetic preserved pronounced schwa second element Shain speakers of English speakers of German spelling standard German Strassburger Strassburger and Hinks's suffix terminal consonants terminal position translations uncorrupted unvoiced vowels written to represent Wurtland