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Help[Facts] Latinization of Germanic names.
(I warn you, this is going to be a bit of a vage post, since it's late and my brain is foggy.) :-S
I have a vague suspicion that with Germanic names beginning with a 'K', their latinized version often starts with a 'C' instead. Like: Karl -> Carolus.
Now, one of the middle names of my ancestors is Cunibert (I've read it that way in his marriage book), but it was hard to find more people with this variant of the name - more people seem to write it as Kunibert. Then perhaps Cunibert is a short version of the latinization of Kunibert - Cunibertus?
One of this ancestor's aunts was called Cunigundis. Now this definitely seems to be a latinization of Kunigunde, so in short, could I be right about the 'K to C' thing?
And finally, there's another thing I'd like to know. The father of this ancestor was called Gottlieb - is there also a Latin variant of this name? My grandfather is named Gottfried, and I know that its Latin variant is Godefridus, but I'm wondering about Gottlieb. It can't possibly be Gottlibus or something, right?
Thank you in advance,
Lucille
I have a vague suspicion that with Germanic names beginning with a 'K', their latinized version often starts with a 'C' instead. Like: Karl -> Carolus.
Now, one of the middle names of my ancestors is Cunibert (I've read it that way in his marriage book), but it was hard to find more people with this variant of the name - more people seem to write it as Kunibert. Then perhaps Cunibert is a short version of the latinization of Kunibert - Cunibertus?
One of this ancestor's aunts was called Cunigundis. Now this definitely seems to be a latinization of Kunigunde, so in short, could I be right about the 'K to C' thing?
And finally, there's another thing I'd like to know. The father of this ancestor was called Gottlieb - is there also a Latin variant of this name? My grandfather is named Gottfried, and I know that its Latin variant is Godefridus, but I'm wondering about Gottlieb. It can't possibly be Gottlibus or something, right?
Thank you in advance,
Lucille
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