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<b>L O W L A N D S - L - 06 August 2010 - Volume 08<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">From: <img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Ron/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image001.gif" class=" QrVm3d" name="upi" width="1" border="0" height="1"><span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Ben J. Bloomgren</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com">ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com</a>></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Subject: <span class="gi">[lll]
orthography</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ron and all,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I was back in Kansas a couple of weeks
ago when a family member started to talk to me about our "German"
heritage. Apparently my maternal grandmother's family comes from Rügen Island
up in Ostfrießland. She said that the spelling used in documents from the 1800s
is From. I asked a friend who comes from Bergisch Gladbach, near Köln. He said
that the modern spelling is Fromm, meaning pious or devout. The spelling as it
is today is Frahm. What does that all mean first of all?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Secondly, my family has
obtained some documents from the 1850's regarding the Frahms. We have brought
them to several writers and readers of modern "Germans", but they can
make little sense out of them. They say that the writing is more
"fancy". Can yall enlighten me on these things?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ben ('io lani)</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Subject: Names<br>
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Hi, Ben!<br>
<br>
Nice to hear from you again.<br>
<br>
The Isle of Rugia (<i>Rügen</i>) lies in the Baltic Sea off the coast of the German
state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (<i>Mecklenburg-Vorpommern</i> in
German, <i>Mäkelborg-Vörpommern</i> in Low Saxon) situated east of Hamburg in an area that used to belong to Eastern Germany. Eastern Friesland or East
Frisia are the English names for what in German is <i>Ostfriesland</i>
and in Low Saxon <i>Oostfreesland</i>. It is a region within the German state
of Lower Saxony (<i>Niedersachsen</i> in German and <i>Neddersassen</i> in Low
Saxon). This means that it is situated <i>west </i>of Hamburg
and on the North Sea coast. So we are talking
about different regions here.<br>
<br>
Fromm is a German surname, is also somwhat common as a Jewish German surname. It’s
literal meaning is ‘pious’ (though I am not sure if this is really its
etymology). The Low Saxon equivalent is Fraam, often spelled Germanized as Frahm. Since in
most Low Saxon dialects the long “a” is pronounced “o”-like, many people took
to spelling it “o”. So an earlier spelling of this Low Saxon name as From (with
a <i>long</i> “o” sound, not a short one as in German) is thus quite consistent.<br>
<br>
By the way, what is now Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania used to be primarily inhabited
by speakers of Western Slavic language varieties, primarily Polabian and Pomeranian.
Speakers of Saxon and Dutch later populated the area and many of them mixed with
the Slavic population. The Isle of Rugia (Germany’s largest island, I believe)
was of particular significance among pre-Christian Slavs. It is there that certain
pilgrimage sites were found, mostly dedicated to the three-headed god Triglav (“three-head”).
(I wonder if there is any connection with the Hindu </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI">त्रिमूर्ति</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="HI"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration">Trimūrti and even the
Christian trinity.)<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</span></span></p>
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