sentences:  Places with the name element "—weiler", which as a standalone word means “hamlet” (originally “homestead”), cannot be dated very accurately by this fact alone, as they arose over a very long timespan.The name's original meaning, however, could have been something like “Homestead/Hamlet/Farm at an oak forest”.Most likely, however, it is a case of a village with the name element "—weiler" founded, as so many were, in the Early Middle Ages.