Re: German "Stein"

["Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim" <Jdibrahim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christian Weisgerber wrote:

> 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. I could at least get an
idea because in particular its colour suggests some kind of electricity
but now again what's Einstein? We haven't still found a satisfactory
explanation for the first part of the word. There are some helpful
suggestions: it might be a corruption of Eisenstein  or it referred to
a piece of jewlry by the Jews.