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[LoGH] German Name Research Notes

Lee Thompson (shadow@nwlink.com)
Tue, 19 Sep 2000 07:13:12 -0700


I don't know if anyone's particularly interested but here are the notes for
the German LoGH Name Research.

Any contributions or opinions are welcomed.   I think the Free Planets
Alliance should be the next research task.

Not Found:

*Benemunde/Benemünde (Closest Match: Warnemünde)
*Funmel
*Kalnap (see Calnap)
*Legmiza (Closest Match: Leibzig  [big city])
*Leiwul (Closest Match: Laibach)
*Meivoher (Closest Match: Maivogel)
*Olrau
*Seclä



Found with Notes:

Adalbert
Ale
Alfred 
Alois
Altringen
Amarie
Annerose 
Ansbach
Anton
Armsdorf
August
Barbarossa
Bayerlein
Beowulf
Bergengrün
Berlin
Bernhard 
Bernheim
Bittenfeld
Blumenhart (was Blumehart)
Bolenz
Boltik
Boris
Bracke (was Blakke)
Brauhitze (was Brauhitz)
Braunschweig
Brentahno
Bruckdorf (was Bruckdolf)
Brünhilde
Büro
Buxtehude
Carnap
Cornelius
Detlev (was Dähtlich)
Dickel
Dieter (was Dita)
Dietrich 
Dirxen
Dittersdorf (was Dittersdolf)
Dominique
Dresden (was Droisen)
Drewentz
Dunkel
Ehrenberg
Eichendorff (was Eihendolf)
Ein
Eisenach
Elfriede
Elisabeth
Elsheimer
Emil 
Erlach/Erlacher
Ernest
Ernst
Erwin
Eugen
Fahrenheit
Falsterbo (was Falstrong)
Felix
Ferdinand (was Fernand)
Ferner
Feuerbach
Flegel
Forseti
Franz
Friedrich 
Fusenegger
Garmisch
Geiersberg
Gerlache
Glaeser/Gläser (not as a name)
Gluck
Goetz (perferred spelling is Götz)
Goldenbaum
Griesenbeck (was Grisenbeck)
Griess
Grillpalzer
Gröbner
Grotewohl
Grüenwald
Grüneman
Günter
Gustav
Gustav (was Guzman)
Gustavsson (was Gutensonne) [Gute Sonne: good sun, not used for names]
Hans
Hartarschdatt (was Hardarschdat; means Hard Ass)
Hasselback
Hauff
Hauptmann
Heinessen (German: Hainichen)
Heinrich
Helm
Helmut
Herbert
Heydrich
Hildegard
Hildesheim (was Hildensheim)
Hilmer
Hofmeister
Holzbauer (was Holtzbauer)
Horst
Hosinger (was Hosingar) [Hosingar is Nordish]
Ingrimm (was Ahsgrimm) [deeply felt anger / fury]
Isegrimm [fairy tale name for wolf] (Alternate to Ingrimm)
Isak
Iserlohn
Jakob
Joachim 
Jochen 
Josef
Jotunheim
Jürgens
Kampfhuber (was Kamfuber)
Karl 
Kasper
Kastrop
Katholiken (was Patolicken)
Kempf
Kesseling (was Kessellink; see NOTES at bottom)
Kessler (perferred Keßler)
Kircheis
Kißling
Klara
Klaus 
Kleiber
Kleingelt
Klopstock
Knapfsheim (was Knapfsteim)
Köhler
Kohlrausch
Konev
Königstiegel (was Konieg Tiegel) [King's pot]
Königstiger [Bengal tiger] (Alternate for Konieg Tiegel)
Konrad
Krusenstern
Kümmel (was Künmel)
Kurisch (was Kurlich)
Kurt
Laft
Lang
Lansberg
Lennenkamp (was Lennenkanpt)
Leopold
Lichtenlade  [not an exact match: Lichtenau, Lichtenfels, Lichtenberg] **
Linier (doesn't seem to be a name)
Linse (was Linser)
Linz
Littenheim 
Lohengramm
Lorenz
Louis
Lubeck
Lücke
Lutz
Magdalena
Mainhoff
Mariendorf
Marika
Maximillian 
Mecklinger
Merkatz
Moder
Molt
Muckenberger
Müller
Müsel
Neidhardt
Neißebach
Neue Sanssouci
Oberstein
Ölfässer (was Olfesser/Olvesser)
Oppenheimer
Oskar 
Osmane (was Osmyer)
Ostmark
Paul
Paumann
Raabenhardt (was Raabenardt)
Radbruch
Ratzel
Reckendorf
Reinhard (also Rheinhardt)
Remscheld
Rentenberg
Reuentahl
Reuental
Richter
Ritschl
Rolf
Rubinsky
Rudolf 
Rupert
Sabine
Sahm (was Saam)
Salamander
Samuel
Sanders
Sauken
Schast (not as a name)
Schaudinn
Schenkopp
Schleicher
Schler
Schneider
Schuhmacher
Schürer
Sebastian
Seeckt (appears to be named after someone
http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/SeecktHans/)
Seefeld
Seidlitz
Servil (was Server)
Siebenbürgen (was Silverberche)
Siegbert
Siegfried
Sigismund (was Sigissmunt)
Sinzer
Skirnir
Sombart
Sonnenfels
Staaden
Stauffen 
Steinhof (also Steinhoff)
Steinmetz
Sterzer
Stockhausen
Strauss
Streit
Susanne (More common than Sussana)
Theodor
Therese 
Thoma
Tonio
Tristan
Turneisen
Ude
Ulrich
Vandenberg
Vier
Viola
Volk (was Vork)
Vollker Axel
Vonkel
Wagenseil
Wagner 
Wahlen
Wähler
Waldenser (was Waldhanser)
Waldhauser
Walter 
Wein (was Whin)
Welner
Werner
Werzel
Westerland
Westfalen (was Westpfahle) [an independent kingdom back in Prussian times]
Wiesenhütter
Wilhelm 
Wilhelmi (common)
Wilhelmina
Willibald 
Winckler
Wolfgang
Würmeling (was Würmelink)



Note on Kesselling/Kessellink:

(Graf von) Kesselink, Kessellink, Kesseling [aristocrat in prussian times,
various spellings of the name known].  I went with the prussian name since
that's what the Empire is modeled after (and yes, I realize that Kessellink is
a Phezzani but remember they were founded by the Empire.)

** Litchenlade as two words means "Light Drawer" which obviously doesn't fit.

-- 
Lee Thompson
shadow@nwlink.com
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