Re: German "Stein"

[Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

Or maybe it's called that because it comes from the town of Gerolstein,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerolstein

just like (brace yourself) Evian water comes from the town of 
Évian-les-Bains and San Pellegrino water comes from the town of San 
Pellegrino.