Re: [tied] Re: alb. gji

At 9:30:26 AM on Monday, March 3, 2003, tolgs001
<gs001ns@...> wrote:

>>But <Nietzsche> is from <Nikolaus>.

> Perhaps I don't remember the correct etymology. I think of
> two... suffixes used in German: "-nitz" + "-(e/i)sch-". I
> don't have a "Deutsches Namenslexikon" at hand. (Frequent
> German derivations of Nikolaus are e.g. Klaus/Claus,
> Claas, Claassen, Klose (this one in Eastern and Polish
> regions).)

<Ni(e)tze>, <Ni(e)tzsche>, <Nitsch(e)>, etc., seem to be
mostly East Middle German; the last was common in medieval
Silesia. Brechenmacher, Bahlow, and E. Schwarz all agree in
making it a pet form of <Nikolaus>, and there are examples
like <Nitsche Smotensyfe> 1387 = <Nicclos> and <Nickel ym
keler> 1382 = <Nitsche>.

Brian