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[Facts] Re: Roswitha/Sette
SETTE is not listed in W. Seibicke's Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch. This makes it rather unlikely that Sette is or was actually used as a registered given name.
Seibicke has SETTCHEN, though: pet form of Lisette. And this makes sense to me and could well be the missing link to Elisabeth. Of course Lisette is a French variant of Elisabeth, but the German pronunciation lee-zeh-teh is possible and would lead to Sette (zeh-teh).
Roswitha as the origin of Sette seems very unlikely to me.
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Roswitha/Sette  ·  Telfalathiel  ·  10/27/2010, 8:26 PM
Re: Roswitha/Sette  ·  JHK  ·  10/28/2010, 11:41 AM
Re: Roswitha/Sette  ·  Telfalathiel  ·  10/28/2010, 12:02 PM
Re: Roswitha/Sette  ·  JHK  ·  10/28/2010, 12:32 PM
Re: Roswitha/Sette  ·  Telfalathiel  ·  10/28/2010, 12:34 PM
Re: Roswitha/Sette  ·  Andy ;—)  ·  10/29/2010, 1:22 AM