[Talk-id] Place names

[Reza Primardiansyah]

Ben,
-asri also has meaning (it means harmony). And I had checked that there is
actually "Kedungasri" village. There are also several "Purwoasri" (at
Malang and Kediri, for instance).

Regards

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Bernhard Hiller <bhil at gmx.de> wrote:

> Some places in South East Java end on "-asri", e.g. Kedungasri, Purwoasri.
> But that's not a typical Javanese ending of a place name, I'd rather expect
> "-sari", i.e. Kedungsari, Purwosari - a typo in my opinion.
> These place names seem to be imported, as the place-tag is hardly ever
> located in a village.
> And strangely, Google Earth uses the same names - same source?
> What do you think: should I change the endings, or leave them as they are?
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