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Re: Fairytale Names?
by Andy (guest)
9/28/2004, 9:34 AM
in reply to a message by Miss Claire
That's interesting! What about the -ella part in Cinderella? Does it mean anything?Andy ;—)
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- Miss Claire   +2
9/28/2004, 2:05 PM
Good question... Maybe a feminization of "illon" because it could sound masculine to English people?
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- Miranda (Randee15)   +1
9/28/2004, 4:35 PM
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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- Anneza (guest)
9/29/2004, 12:30 AM
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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