Re: German "Stein"

["Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim"]

Joachim Pense schrieb:

> It is called simply "Gerolsteiner". And I severely doubt that "Gerol"
> has anything to do with "Geröll". ("Geröll" btw is a collective of
> "rollen" - to roll; the literal meaning is "stuff that rolls around",
> and it is used to denote stones/rocks that have rolled down a
> mountainside ('rubble').

Maybe Gerol is just a name (no link) or a word play. I mean in a way it
makes sense: Geroel and Stein go together and the word emphasises the
mountaineous purity of the the water by repeating it or using cognate
words. Advertising is often doing that. Perhaps Umalut is dropped to
make more international. After Gerolstein the company launched another
one called: Gerolsteinerstein. I wonder what will be the next one.