Re: Does this mean anything?

[kuijt@umiacs.UMD.EDU]

Michael Limner writes (abbreviated):

>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'.

stolz: "proud".  German.

That is without the second t, though.

Wind (noun) is the same in German as in English.  And to the best of
my knowledge (caveat: I am not a native german speaker), "proud wind"
doesn't mean anything special in German (unlike divine wind in Japanese,
for example).

Dafydd von Richtofen (the Red Earl)
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