• yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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    12 days ago

    (Southern) Germany has Hintertupfingen, where “Hinter-” refers to “behind”.

    It really sounds like some 1000 year old village with 20 inhabitants.

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      12 days ago

      Is that a real village? I only have a little knowledge of German but it sounds like a finger up the bum. Or a bum up the finger, I’m not sure

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        11 days ago

        It’s not real and nor does it refer to fingers or your bum.

        -ingen is a common suffix for towns in Baden-Württemberg. Tübingen, Reutlingen, Vaihingen, Villingen-Schwenningen are some of the bigger ones that come to my mind. But like half the towns are named -ingen.

        So it’s more like Hinter-tupf-ingen if you want to lose the finger association.