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Re: Fairytale Names?
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The French name for Cinderella is Cendrillon. I read that this name comes from a combo of "cendre" (ash) and "souillon" ("lowest" servant).
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That's interesting! What about the -ella part in Cinderella? Does it mean anything?Andy ;—)
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Good question... Maybe a feminization of "illon" because it could sound masculine to English people?
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Slightly OT interjection"Cinderella" used to be a general slang term for a low-ranked servant girl. In some other Grimm tales, such girls are sometimes referred to as "cinderellas".Miranda
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As far as I know, unlike the Grimm brothers, Perrault actually wrote Cinderella (Cendrillon, of course) as an original work. So the German link would have come later - like calling any detective a Sherlock Holmes.
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