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Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim <Jdibrahim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 1. The combination of some words like Bernstein is clear to me
> >
> > It is? So--rhetoric question--what's a "Bern"?
>
> As far as I know dear Christian "bern" goes back to a middle German
> word for burn, hence a burnable type of stone.
Yes, that's what you find when you look it up in an etymological
dictionary. To your average German, this is not transparent and
the "Bern-" part is a bound morpheme that occurs only in this single
word.
> I could at least get an idea because in particular its colour
> suggests some kind of electricity
Fascinating.
> but now again what's Einstein? We haven't still found a satisfactory
> explanation for the first part of the word.
Ask some genealogists.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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