I do not deny that in words that are not geographical place names, a WN
ending is not a suffix meaning “place”. But I continue to assert that in
geographical place names, -WN is a routine, generic suffix that means “place”. One
of the important things about that is that in trying to determine the
underlying meaning of a geographical place name such as “Hebron”/XBRWN, the –WN ending
can usually be ignored completely. (“Hermon” may be a rare exception to
that rule, but that is a controversial case.) In most cases, one simply lops off
the final WN, and then looks at what is left as being either the root, or as
being a prefix + root, to which the standard –WN suffix has been added,
meaning “place” in a geographical place name.
In particular, I see the –WN at the end of each of “the Sharon (Plain)” and “
Hebron” as meaning “place”. Do you have a different analysis of either of
those two geographical place names?
Jim Stinehart
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