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[Facts] Ital (name used in Switzerland)

by Lumia

2/24/2007, 1:37 PM

In the Reding family from Switzerland, it seems that Ital is a more or less usual masculine name since 15th century:

Reding, Ital (der Ältere)
Reding, Ital (der Jüngere)
Reding, Ital von

Is Ital the German form of Italus (Italo in Italian)? Or is it, perhaps, another name, from Germanic origin?

Any help will be appreciated. Thank you very much.

Lumia
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- Satu (_satu_) +3

2/25/2007, 2:11 AM

Hi Lumia,

In Germany, the name Ital derives from the Old High German word îtal meaning 'unsophisticated, pure'. A more common form today is Eitel.

In Switzerland, Ital can be either this German name or a variant form of Italo.

- Rene +1

2/25/2007, 8:25 AM

Just curious...

I am just curious: Do you have books about names that list even such old and/or rare names, or did you manage to find the information on the Internet somehow?

- Satu (_satu_)

2/25/2007, 11:42 AM

Hi Rene,

I found this information in "Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch" by Wilfried Seibicke.

- Lumia

2/25/2007, 5:22 AM

Thank you very much,

- Rene +1

2/25/2007, 12:22 AM

I tried to find out something about the name, but without luck. My problem was that Google is nearly worthless as a source of information here because it cannot distinguish between "Ital" and "ital.", the latter being the German abbreviation of "italienisch", to be found on thousands of pages and drowning any information about a name Ital.

A search in the Swiss online telephone directory for the name
http://tel.search.ch/result.html?name=ital
shows around 20 people with this name. 20 people in whole Switzerland is of course tiny; it might be that Ital was only popular hundreds of years ago, which would make the hunt for information about the name all the more difficult.

- Lumia

2/25/2007, 5:21 AM

Thank you very much,

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