Re: Anthroponymy (was Re: Re: Laadan)
| From: | Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 16, 2002, 20:28 |
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At 1:17 PM -0500 12/16/02, John Cowan wrote:
>Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
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>> whatever you do, Grandsire-Koevoets and Koevoets-Grandsire both sound rather
>> strange ;))))) .
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>How about Grandvoets? There is Tolkienian precedent.
Do you mean 'Proudfoot' (having to do with impressive feet), or
'Sackville-Baggins' (mixing languages in surnames)?
Dirk
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