Hanebrugish: Difference between revisions

Hanebrug is ultimately named after one of Charles' cats, Hannah, who had already been enjoying a sort of celebrity status within the friend group; "Hane" is Charles' favorite nickname for her. The original proposal for the city's name was actually ''Haneburg'', but a typo rendered it ''Hanebrug''; the mistake stuck and the city was thus officially named ''Hanebrug''. In Hanebrugish, ''Hanebrug'' can be analyzed as a compound of ''Hane'' ("Hannah, Hane") + ''brug'' ("bridge"), making the city's name literally translate to "Hanebridge." The term ''brug'' comes from Proto-Germanic [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/brugj%C7%AD *brugjǭ], with highly irregular schwa-deletion (the expected form would be ''*bruge''). The irregularity of ''brug'' likely has to do with it having originally been a mispelling of ''burg'', not a word derived from anything.