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Help[Facts] Re: Confused about Carl/Karl
in reply to a message by Lumia
Lumia is perfectly right.
Nevertheless, it seems that in German onomastics, the "(free) man" derivation has been given up. What you will read nowadays in German scientific namebooks, is the HARI(bert etc.) > Hariolus > Carolus derivation.
Sources:
Wilfried Seibicke, Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch I-V, Berlin, New York 1996-2002
Henning Kaufmann, Ergänzungsband zu Ernst Förstemann, Altdeutsche Personennamen, München 1968
Rosa und Volker Kohlheim, Das große Vornamenlexikon, Mannheim 2003
Nevertheless, it seems that in German onomastics, the "(free) man" derivation has been given up. What you will read nowadays in German scientific namebooks, is the HARI(bert etc.) > Hariolus > Carolus derivation.
Sources:
Wilfried Seibicke, Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch I-V, Berlin, New York 1996-2002
Henning Kaufmann, Ergänzungsband zu Ernst Förstemann, Altdeutsche Personennamen, München 1968
Rosa und Volker Kohlheim, Das große Vornamenlexikon, Mannheim 2003
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