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Thread #48402   Message #727365
Posted By: Steve Parkes
11-Jun-02 - 05:16 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: pre-English placenames
Subject: RE: pre-english placenames
Isn't ystrad cognate with street, strada, strasse etc.? Nearly all the European and Scandinavian languages (inc. classical Greek and Latin) derive from a common ancestor, so it wouldn't be surprising to find similarities of this kind.

Steve