Re[2]: [tied] Is Lars a Etruscan name?

At 5:43:23 AM on Tuesday, May 6, 2003, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
> wrote:

>> At 11:07:13 PM on Monday, May 5, 2003, João Simões Lopes
>> Filho wrote:

>> > I've read in a newspaper about Scandinavian name Lars
>> > being of Etruscan origin. Is it true?

>> It's from Latin <Laurentius>. The medieval Norwegian form
>> was <Lafranz> and the like. In the 14th century <Lauri(t)s>
>> and then <Lasse> came into use, and in the second half of
>> the 15th century <Lars>. <Laurentius> is ethnic in origin,
>> 'man of Laurentum'.

> 'Lasse' is the regular diminutive of 'Lars' in Swedish
> (type Robert > Bob, William > Bill), so presumably
> 'Lasse' is younger than 'Lars'.

Apparently not. As I said, <Lasse> predates <Lars> in the
historical record in Norway. For Denmark I quote from DGP:
Den i Vulgærlatin kendte Form <Larentius> (Kock, Sv.
ljudhist. II 266) er sjælden, og det deraf udviklede <Lars>
er efter middelalderligt, hvorfor Antagelsen af en gammel
Assimilation Lars > Lasse er uden kronologisk Holdepunkt
(Heise, Dipl. Vibergense p. 36, som citeres herfor hos BrNGG
II p. 222, har ikke <Lars>, men <Pether Lassen>).

Brian