ab dem Hooff vnnd gůt das Käller gůt: Namenglieder und Appellative in ihrem Kontext

Abstract

The article focuses on place names in the canton of Lucerne in Central
Switzerland. It deals with the place-name elements -guet and -hof, the Swiss
German appellatives Guet (‚piece of land, farm‘) and Hof (‚court, farm‘), and
the phrase Hof und Guet. Based on the corpus compiled by the research project
Luzerner Namenbuch it presents an analysis of their distribution. It is shown
that both the names, the appellatives and its phrase are rare in the sources from
the eastern area (the Rigi mountain region) compared to the western region
of Entlebuch. The last part of the article focuses on the example of Källerhof,
where it is shown how the context interacts with the name and how there may
be different names for the same object through time.