Re: Ath aeldhôf-vy!
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 20, 2002, 11:07 |
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Thomas R. Wier scripsit:
> <Kristopher> seems to me entirely expected if the family
> hails originally from a non-Anglophone Germanic country.
AFAIK "Christoph" is normal in Germany (I have a cousin there of
that name). The only European version of the name I can think of that
involves "Kr-" is Polish "Krzysztof".
The name "Kristopher" is not utterly unknown, however; googling finds
about 75,000 instances. For comparison, "Christopher" shows about
seven million, "Christoph" about two million, "Christophe" about
a million and a half, and "Krzysztof" about 680,000.
--
John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Most languages are dramatically underdescribed, and at least one is
dramatically overdescribed. Still other languages are simultaneously
overdescribed and underdescribed. Welsh pertains to the third category.
--Alan King
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