Re[4]: [tied] Re: Meaning of Aryan: now, "white people"?

At 11:43:27 AM on Saturday, February 16, 2008,
fournet.arnaud wrote:

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> SchwarzenEgger is from Oesterreich
> and most Family names with four syllables
> are not from Germany.
> I noticed that
> I don't know if it's always true.

It isn't; just spend some time with a good reference for
German surnames (e.g., Brechenmacher). However, I can think
of one distributional feature that might have suggested such
an idea: locative surnames in <-er> are predominantly from
the Upper German dialect area.

Brian