Re: Anthroponymy (was Re: Re: Laadan)
From: | Joe <joe@...> |
Date: | Monday, December 16, 2002, 21:14 |
On Monday 16 December 2002 9:01 pm, John Cowan wrote:
> Dirk Elzinga scripsit:
> > >How about Grandvoets? There is Tolkienian precedent.
> >
> > Do you mean 'Proudfoot' (having to do with impressive feet), or
> > 'Sackville-Baggins' (mixing languages in surnames)?
>
> I meant "Proudfoot", which now that I think about it is also
> mixed-language. But alas Dutch doesn't mix its Romance and native morphemes
> very easily.
hmmm....
/xrantfu:ts/? Has a ring to it, somehow...