[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] German Dialect question

Michael Stockhausen michael.stockhausen.ff at web.de
Sat Dec 29 11:03:22 PST 2012


Dan,
in Standard German the "s" in Hirsekorn is pronounced like in pleasant.

Michael






From: "DLPratt123 at aol.com" <DLPratt123 at aol.com>
To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 3:51:59 PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] German Dialect question

My grandparents surnamed Hirsekorn emigrated from Volhynia in 1906 and
1907.  The birth certificate for their son (from the Polish Baptist church 
in
Lucinow) is in Cyrillic, spelling the surname in a way that suggests that
the  s was pronounced like the s in English `vision' or `pleasure'.  Do any 
of
you know of a German dialect in which `Hirse' would have been so
pronounced?  (This would explain why others occasionally spelled the 
surname as
Hirschkorn.)

Dan Pratt

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