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Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim kirjoitti:
> The German word for stone ,,Stein" is used in German very widely in
> combinations particularly with proper names like surnames, names of
> streets....
> 1. The combination of some words like Bernstein is clear to me but I
> can't understand a name like Einstein "one stone".
Wild guess: the "Ein-" might be traceable to some other word and
entirely unrelated to ein "one".
> 2. Germany is not that mountainous so why this overuse of "Stein"(
> maybe particularly in the north?) Any historic explanation?
Another wild guess: it might have something to do with borders marked
with stones.
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