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Philology

Coates discusses various aspects of the phonemic form of the name, in order to be able to dismiss other suggestions and support his London flat rent own proposal.

He asserts that "It is quite clear that these vowel letters in the earliest forms, both <o> and <u>, represent phonemically long vowel sounds": he refers to London flat rent a number of other writers who have argued this, and adds several arguments of his own, including the form of the name in Welsh Llundein.

Coates discusses the ending of the name, whose exact shape he says is a problem. He observes that the ending in Latin sources before 600 is always -inium, which points London flat rent to a British double termination -in-jo-n. But this cannot be the form from which the Anglo-Saxon names were borrowed, as they all have Lund-, and an /i/ in the following syllable would have caused Lynd- by umlaut.

He tentatively accepts Jackson's argument[2] that the British form was -on-jo-n, with the change to -inium unexplained. However he speculates further that the -i- could have arisen London flat rent by metathesis of the -i- in the last syllable of his own suggested etymon (see below).

[edit] Proposed etymologies

The earliest account of the toponym's derivation can be attributed to Geoffrey of Monmouth. In Historia Regum Britanniae, the name is described as originating from King Lud, who seized the city and ordered it London flat rent to be renamed in his honour as Kaerlud. This was then eventually slurred into Karelundein and then London. However, Geoffrey's work contains many fanciful suppositions about place-name derivation and the suggestion has no basis in linguistics.[3].

London flat rent - Other fanciful theories over the years have been:

* William Camden reportedly suggested that the name might come from Brythonic lhwn (modern Welsh Llwn) meaning "grove" and town. Thus, London flat rent giving the origin as Lhwn Town, translating to "city in the grove".[4]

* John Jackson, writing in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1792[5], challenges the Llyn din theory (see below) on geographical grounds, and London flat rent suggests instead a derivation from Glynn din - presumably intended as 'valley city'.

* Some British Israelites claimed that the Anglo-Saxons, assumed to be descendants of the Tribe London flat rent of Dan, named their settlement lan-dan, meaning "abode of Dan" in Hebrew.[6]

* An unsigned article in The Cambro Briton for 1821[7] supports the suggestion of Luna din London flat rent ('moon fortress'), and also mentions in passing the possibility of Llong din ('ship fortress').

* Several theories were discussed in the pages of Notes and Queries on 27 December 1851[8], including Luandun (supposedly "city of the moon", a reference to the temple of Diana supposed to London flat rent have stood on the site of St Paul's Cathedral), and Lan Dian or Llan Dian ("temple of Diana"). Another correspondent dismissed these, and reiterated the common Llyn din theory.