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ArchivesIs Sigismund a half-latinised German name?
I think Siegmund is the actual, authentic German form, while Sigismund strikes to me as half-latinised (because of the 'Sigis') part. I guess the Latin version of this name must have been Sigismundus.
How right am I about this? I really would like to know.
Thank you in advance for your response!
Lucille :)
How right am I about this? I really would like to know.
Thank you in advance for your response!
Lucille :)
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Sigismund is not a Latinized (or half-Latinized) form of the name. Tacitus Latinizes SEGIMUNDUS.
It looks like there is an older form of the High German word „Sieg“ (victory“): SIGIS, obviously Gothic and an inferred Germanic form, and there is a younger form: SIGI, which is Old Saxon or Old High German SIGU (both from about 9th cent.). There seems to have been a bit of to an fro between the two in later centuries. A 5th cent. Prince of Burgundy was known both as SIGISMUND and SIGIMUND. So the S was sometimes dropped a long time before. Confusion, wherever you look.
It looks like there is an older form of the High German word „Sieg“ (victory“): SIGIS, obviously Gothic and an inferred Germanic form, and there is a younger form: SIGI, which is Old Saxon or Old High German SIGU (both from about 9th cent.). There seems to have been a bit of to an fro between the two in later centuries. A 5th cent. Prince of Burgundy was known both as SIGISMUND and SIGIMUND. So the S was sometimes dropped a long time before. Confusion, wherever you look.
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You are right, these books are hard to find. Try in a good library and then copy them. I tried to get hold of them second hand, but I couldn't afford them.
Where do you live?
Where do you live?
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