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Posted: 3/16/2006 2:47 PM

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schneelocke

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As opposed to being an imported name? Fitting into the language's morphology as moozooh said is probably a good start. If the meaning of the name is unintelligible to a native speaker of that language, that's also a good pointer. (But this requirement doesn't fit well with first (personal) names and I can't really say why.)

I don't know... there are tons of German names where I don't know what they mean. Take a random sampling of German politicians (well, not quite random really - these are merely the first I thought of); you might have Merkel, Schröder, Kohl, Brandt, Schmidt, Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, Genscher, Platzeck, Müntefering, Stoiber, Koch, Simonis, and so on. OK, "Koch" is obvious, and "Schmidt" most likely means "Schmied". But the rest? I have no idea.

Posted: 3/16/2006 5:16 PM

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Perhaps German names are different then. I can determine if a family name is Swedish or not quite easily, because most of them fit into three large groups. Schmidth is Schmeid, yes (compare to Smith in English). And Kohl means cabbage, doesn't it? Brandt exists in Swedish too, meaning steep. Otherwise I'm kind of lost... but the ones you listed seem to consist of German phonemes, at least. Or maybe not Simonis. Meh, I don't know, it's your language, YOU deal with it. ;)

Posted: 3/16/2006 5:48 PM

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schneelocke

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Perhaps German names are different then. I can determine if a family name is Swedish or not quite easily, because most of them fit into three large groups. Schmidth is Schmeid, yes (compare to Smith in English). And Kohl means cabbage, doesn't it? Brandt exists in Swedish too, meaning steep. Otherwise I'm kind of lost... but the ones you listed seem to consist of German phonemes, at least. Or maybe not Simonis. Meh, I don't know, it's your language, YOU deal with it. ;)

Heh, yeah. :) And yeah, "Kohl" means "cabbage", but I'm not sure whether that really means anything; it could just as well be related to "Kohle" (coal), or something else entirely.

Posted: 3/18/2006 4:13 AM

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In an attempt to swerve us back on-topic (for the sake of the thread), what do people think about the articles that deal with the movies on this site?

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Posted: 3/18/2006 7:09 AM

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