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.
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