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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Pronouncing your name in another language
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 00:53:10 GMT
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In article <3fcoi9$2au@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> Marek1@ix.netcom.com (Marek Konski) writes:
>In <1995Jan15.233436.19642@midway.uchicago.edu> deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu 
>(Daniel von Brighoff) writes: 

>>Actually, 'ala' + 'mann'.  The double-l is a French innovation.  The
>>source for the adjective 'allemand' is MHG 'alemant'.
>
>I picked the double-l form from a "Dictionary of the Italian Language" 
>which explains in this way the origin of the name Alamanno (one l). 
>Besides the German spelling is alle (with double-l). I do knot know the 
>origin of the difference.   

That is the modern German.  Old High German has 'al' [OED, entry for 
'Alemannic'].  I've never seen a German spelling from any period with
a double-l.  The Latin name, btw, is similarly 'Alemannia.'

>There are still Romance-speaking people living in the Balkan area 
>(northern Greece and Macedonia) called "Vlach" (I have seen also the 
>name Aromuni)

In English, 'Arumanians.'

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