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in reply to a message by Terrunder Lipscomb
Being a native speaker of German and knowing something about German names, I can only give a negative answer: I don't know any German given name that only slightly resembles Terrunder.
A remote hypothesis (and probably far-fetched) would give the following derivation: The German name and surname Erdmann (interpreted as "earth man") may get humanised to a Latin-Greek mix form Terrander that may be phonetically respelled as Terrunder. Searching for "Terrander" makes this hypothesis improbable, Terrander as a surname has an extremely low frequency and I cannot locate German people with that name.
A remote hypothesis (and probably far-fetched) would give the following derivation: The German name and surname Erdmann (interpreted as "earth man") may get humanised to a Latin-Greek mix form Terrander that may be phonetically respelled as Terrunder. Searching for "Terrander" makes this hypothesis improbable, Terrander as a surname has an extremely low frequency and I cannot locate German people with that name.
This message was edited 1/29/2016, 12:03 AM
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