Re: Does this mean anything?

["Sharon Henderson" <sharon@intercon.com>]

> I'm trying to determine if the world 'Stoltz' is: 
>  
> 1) a real word? 
>  
> 2) does it mean anything? 
>  
> I can only presume it's of German extraction. 
> The context the word is being used in is 'Stoltzwind'. 
> Thank you, 
>  
> Michael Limner, esq. 


Good Michael,

	Stoltz is indeed German, and means pride, haughtiness, and suchlike.  
It has a figurative connotation of something that is majestic.  When paired 
with wind, (which in German means "wind" <g>) one might conjecture that it 
means something like a great, powerful force or storm that sweeps all before 
it.  Sort of like German Mongols?  :-)  

	What can I say?  I'm a hopelessly poetic militarist!  :-)

	and I refuse, even as a herald, to take a single step down the road to 
silliness that is indicated by trying to translate this as a haughty wind .... 
I leave that sort of humor to my lord ....  :-)

	Tschuss,
	Meli
	(who sometimes moonlights as Margarethe .... )

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