Re: German "Stein"

[Joachim Pense]

Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim wrote:

> 
> 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.

It's just the name of the lovely Eifel town where the source of the mineral
water is located. <http://www.gerolstein-net.de/gerolstein/>

Joachim