Re: [tied] Re: Also an Austro-Asiatic Disconnect

At 4:50:58 PM on Friday, November 11, 2005, ehlsmith wrote:

> But just because some people bear the names Kaiser or
> Koenig doesn't mean I assume they are of imperial or royal
> ancestry in their paternal lines, nor that they are regal
> or imperial in character.

And in fact <King> (in various spellings) is a not uncommon
medieval English byname, from which it's clear that it was
used as a descriptive nickname. As for <König>,
Brechenmacher describes it as 'alter u[nd] überaus
beliebter, bei den verschiedensten Anlässen zugeteilter
Ü[ber]N[amen]'.

Brian