Talk:Hafen Slawkenbergius

Meaning of the name
"Slawkenbergius' name is derived from German Hafen ("chamber pot") and Schackenberg ("manure heap")". We should add 'colloquial' and maybe 'Southern German' to Hafen, which in the first place naturally means harbour, see Wilhelmshafen, a town that's not called after the Emperor's chamber pot. Whatever Anderson says, 'Schackenberg' doesn't mean 'manure heap', and the word is much more probably derived from Schlauch, a word that may be used in German for all sorts of flexible tubes, be it in a musical sense (bagpipe), a sexual or oenological sense (wineskin). We also have 'Schlackenberg' or slag heap, a pile of rubbish. Glatisant (talk) 08:43, 2 February 2022 (UTC) (A Dutchman with a reasonable command of both English and German, and with a passion for dictionaries)