- High
German name
Fergunna apparently refers to the Ore
Mountains and
Virgundia (cf.
modern Virngrund forest) to a
range between Ansbach and Ellwangen...
- Jagst,
between the
foothills of the
Swabian Alb and
Virngrund (ancient
Virgundia) forest, the
latter being part of the Swabian-Franconian Forest. The Jagst...
- 'mountain', 'wooded hill', Old High German: Firgunnea, the Ore Mountains, and
Virgundia Waldus, Virgunnia, 'oaks forest', Slavic: *per(g)ynja, 'wooded hills'...
- oaks)", Anglo-Saxon firgen- "mountain wood", Old High
German Fergunna,
Virgundia waldus, etc.
French place names derived from the
forms Percia****, Percoialum...
