Talk:Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate

Requested move
Considering this is the original Nassau that has spawned all the other countless Nassau's in the world (see Nassau (disambiguation) for a complete list), propose to move this. Towns in Germany are also not listed with the country at the end either. Gryffindor 16:32, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose (cities in the Bahamas aren't listed with the country at the end either, except when necessary), but congrats on a job well done in creating the article. I'm surprised there isn't already a standardised naming practice for disambiguating Germany city articles, and I agree Nassau, Germany, is far from the best option: wouldn't this be better at Nassau an der Lahn or Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate? –Hajor 18:19, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * oppose as not the primary topic. Good work on Nassau though. FWIW, de:Nassau is a disambig too. Rd232 talk 19:48, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Cheers :-) Gryffindor  23:19, 23 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Oppose - Nassau (Bahamas) and Nassau (Orange-Nassau, Dutch royal family) are much better known, even if that German town is the original Nassau. - Tonymec 01:01, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. As per Tonymec. Mark 01:26, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. As above. – Axman ( ☏ ) 06:38, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose and prefer one of Hajor's suggestions. Septentrionalis 23:31, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Result would be confusing. Jonathunder 06:12, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose, Nassau is best as a disambig. --Angr/undefined 11:20, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose and agree with Nassau an der Lahn suggestion. Olessi 16:35, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Request not fulfilled due to lack of consensus. Rob Church Talk 19:09, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Etymology
I have removed all references to the name's alleged etymology, as they are unsourced. Knowing as I do that it seems likely that the town's name is inspired by the German words nasse Aue ("wet floodplain"), I nonetheless reject any statement made as though fact to the effect that this is what the town's name means, the reason being that a name's modern form can be misleading as the result of sound shifts, semantic shifts, folk etymology, corruption of the pronunciation down the centuries, and, I'm sure, other things, too. Even the de:WP article does not explain the name's origin. If you know German and think that the etymology is "obvious", I would direct your attention to such German placenames as Katzenelnbogen ("obviously" means "cat's elbow", but that's not its etymology), Feuchtwangen ("obviously" means "moist cheeks", but that's not its etymology) or indeed Darmstadt ("obviously" means "gut town", but that's not its etymology). You cannot simply assume what is "obvious". Kelisi (talk) 20:38, 27 August 2020 (UTC)