| Sumario: | There are some compostive place-names which seem not to have a genitive element, like ODu. Godolfhem [802-7]. The question is, whether they were actual stem-compositions or lost their genitive element. Gysseling (1973) explained them as originally containing the suffix PGm. *-ja, which was lost in the course of time. In that case there must be remains of the suffix in some place-names. This article argues that remains are to be found in place-names with -e like Notleuenes [C12] and even -a and -o like Fengrimahuson [918-48] and *Baltremothorp [C9]. Most of them are derivations from personal names, but there are also derivations from place-names like Heslemaholt [918-48]. The majority of these names seem to occur in the coastal areas, although there are also instances in Germany. Weakening in unaccented syllables made the derivation unclear and led to the loss of vowels, or sometimes to replacement by clearer suffixes like -er.
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