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Re: Is Sigismund a half-latinised German name?
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.
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Hey Andy, thank you for your answer! I really need to get a hold of those two books, though that isn't easy at all. :-/
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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?
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I live in the Netherlands. :) Perhaps I should try the library at my university (I'm a brand spankin' new first year there), maybe they've got it available there. :)
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They should have it or at least be able to get it. (nt) Andy ;—)
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And these are my sources …Ernst Förstemann: Altdeutsche Personennamen (1906)
Henning Kaufmann: Altdeutsche Personennamen, Ergänzungsband (1968)
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