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ArchivesRe: Erasmus and Geert
in reply to a message by Andy ;—)
There is the (High German) word geehrt "honorated, beloved", spoken with a hiat between the two e's. There's a Dutch cognate of the German verb ehren with slightly different spelling.
Maybe Erasmus interpreted his given name to be this word (and this was probably a purposefully creative interpretation of the name; other contemporaries did things like this, too).
Maybe Erasmus interpreted his given name to be this word (and this was probably a purposefully creative interpretation of the name; other contemporaries did things like this, too).
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