Pennsylvania Dutch: A Dialect of South German With an Infusion of EnglishHaldeman, Samuel Stehman
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Pennsylvania Dutch: A Dialect of South German With an Infusion of English
Haldeman, Samuel Stehman
Pennsylvania German dialect
Part of a name may be anglicised, as in Fink_bine_, Espen_shade_,
Traut_wine_--where the first syllable has the German sound. Fentz_maker_
is probably a condensation of Fenstermacher.
It is remarkable that speakers of German often use English forms of
baptismal names, as _Mary_ for Marîa, _Henry_ for Heinrich, and _John_
(tschan, shorter than the medial English sound) for Johannes.[84]
Of curious family names without regard to language, the following may be
recorded--premising that proper names are especially subject to be made
spurious by the accidents of typography.[85]
Ahl, Awl, Ammon, Annĕ, Barndollar, Baud, Bezoar, Bigging,
Blades, Bohrer, Boring, Book, Bracken, Bricker (bridger),
Buckwalter, Burkholder and Burchhalter (burg-holder), Byler,
Candle, Candour, Care, Case, Channell, Chronister, Condit, Cooher,
Cumberbus (Smith's Voyage to Guinea, 1744), Curgus or Circus,
Dehoof, Dialogue, Ditto, Dosh, Eave, Eldridge (in part for
Hildreth), Erb, Eyde, Eyesore (at Lancaster, Pa.), Fassnacht (G.
fastnacht _shrovetide_), Feather, Ferry (for the Walloon name
Ferree[86]); Friday, Fornaux, Furnace, Gans (_goose_, Gansert,
Gensemer, Grossgensly), Gift (poison), Ginder, Gruel, Gutmann
(good-man) Hag (hedge), Harmany, Hecter, Hepting, Herd, Heard,
Hergelrat (rath _counsel_), Hinderer, Hock, Holzhauer and Holzhower
(woodchopper), Honnafusz (G. hahn _a cock_), Kash, Kitch, Koffer,
Landtart, Lawer, Leis, Letz, Licht, Line, Lipp, Löb (lion),
Löwr (at St. Louis), Mackrel, Manusmith, Matt, Marrs, Mehl,
Mortersteel, Mowrer (G. maur _a wall_), Napp, Neeper (Niebuhr?),
Nohaker, Nophsker, Ochs, Over, Oxworth, Peelman, Penas (in Ohio),
Pfund, Popp, Poutch, Quirk, Rathvon (Rodfong, Rautfaung), Road,
Rottenstein (in Texas), Rutt, Sangmeister, Scheuerbrand,
Schlegelmilch, Schlong (snake), Schöttel, Segar, Seldomridge,
Senn, Service (in Indiana), Shaver, Shilling, Shinover, Shock,
Shot, Showers, Skats (in Connecticut), Smout, Spoon, Springer,
Steer (in Texas), Stern, Stetler, Stormfeltz, Strayer, Stretch,
Stridle, Sumption, Surgeon, Swoop (a Suabian), Test, Tise, Tice
(Theiss?), Tittles, Towstenberier, Tyzat (at St. Louis), Umble,
Venus, Venerich,-rik, Vestal (in Texas), Vinegar('s Ferry, on the
Susquehanna), Vogelsang, Wallower, Waltz, Wolfspanier, Wonder,
Woolrick (for Wulfrich?), Work, Worst, Yaffe, Yecker, Yeisley,
Yordea, Zeh, Zugschwerdt.
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