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Does "Wittgenstein" mean "stone of the clever white haired person" or "stone of the knowledgeable pale skinned person" or "the skilled albino's stone" or something along this line?
In Quora I have found someone with a master's degree in linguistics so called Janne Pohl claiming that it "comes from Wittgenstein in western Germany and that it was first documented as “Widenkindigstein” in 1187".
From what he said I checked "widen" which was hard to find a meaning of (as google confuses it with "make wider") but I didt get it means someone with either white hair or plain complexion, kindig was easier to translate, I found it meant clever or knowledgeable or skilled, and I already knew stein meant stone.
Can anyone confirm my research one way or another please?
In Quora I have found someone with a master's degree in linguistics so called Janne Pohl claiming that it "comes from Wittgenstein in western Germany and that it was first documented as “Widenkindigstein” in 1187".
From what he said I checked "widen" which was hard to find a meaning of (as google confuses it with "make wider") but I didt get it means someone with either white hair or plain complexion, kindig was easier to translate, I found it meant clever or knowledgeable or skilled, and I already knew stein meant stone.
Can anyone confirm my research one way or another please?
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