History of salt English places carry the suffix and are historically related to salt, including the four Cheshire 'witches' of Middlewich, Nantwich, Northwich and Leftwich (a small village south of Northwich), and Droitwich in Worcestershire. Middlewich, Nantwich, Northwich and Droitwich are known as the "Domesday Wiches" due to their mention in the Domesday Book, "an indication of the significance of the salt-working towns in the economy of the region, and indeed of the country". Salt was very important to Europe because it was hard to trade with Africa and they needed to produce it themselves. Monopolies over salt production and trade were essential
Esperanto words with the suffix -um (from "reto" 'net, Internet'), and "urbumi" 'to go into town' (from "urbo" 'town, city'). These latter words are not yet in dictionaries. The following is a fairly complete list of words with a reasonable degree of acceptance and that have not been covered above. Esperanto words with the suffix -um Esperanto derivation is for the most part regular and predictable: One can normally understand new words that are built upon known roots, and can create new words on the fly while speaking. However, there is a suffix "-um-" that has no inherent meaning, but derives words that cannot be readily