Message: "Re: Roswitha/Sette"

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[Facts] Re: Roswitha/Sette

by JHK

10/28/2010, 12:32 PM

Now Elisabeth --> Sette makes more sense to my ears than Roswitha --> Sette would. If her mother's name was Elisabeth, could that be the reason for her only to be known as Sette? It does make sense to me: They share a pretty common name, you need to distinguish the two, so they get different nicknames...

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- telfalathiel +1

10/28/2010, 12:34 PM

Yes, it makes sense to me too. Elisabeth "Betche" had a sister Margarete "Gretche" and Betche's husband was Christian. Betche had a daughter named Margarete "Maje" and a daughter named Christina "Dina", so I'm thinking Elisabeth "Sette" is likely.

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- Andy ;—) (guest)

10/29/2010, 1:22 AM

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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