Talk:Dorf

Of course not relevant enough for the entry, but still a little bit interesting, so I'm putting it here: The unusual phenomenon that -dorfer, -dorfisch tends to get a [v] in North-Rhine Westphalia, but common nouns keep [f], is explanable from the fact that when people still widely spoke the regional dialects (where "Dorf" = Dörp), the placenames already often got the standard German form, which was used officially. So these were treated as having an underlying -rv- (since -rf- doesn't exist in these dialects). When later on people adopted standard German as a vernacular, they adopted the common noun "Dorf" with the regular [f] sound. 88.64.225.98 15:56, 9 November 2019 (UTC)