SR - Sigel-

[Brian & Pam Martin]

One question: how is "sigel" pronounced? 

Thanks,
Pendaran


>I was going thru some heraldic precedents and ran across this:
>
>    [Sigelhundas] Some commenters wondered whether the name's meaning
>    [``sun-dogs''] was reasonable, but given such Anglo-Saxon terms as
>    sigelwaras ``sun-men'' (their term for Ethiopians), we saw no
>    reason not to accept the construction.  The Saxons probably would
>    have used the term to refer to African dogs, not to the refraction
>    of sunlight by ice crystals in the upper atmosphere, but I suspect
>    the submitters know that [dogs were used in the armory].  (Shire
>    of Sigelhundas, July, 1992, pg. 2)
>
>Anyone for a "Sigel-" ("sun") name?  Sigelland?  I combine it below
>with each of the suffixes from Johnson, _Place Names of England and
>Wales_, pp. 46-62.  Some of these are not Old English-based, but I
>don't think that's necessarily a problem (Westminster is Germanic +
>Latin).  Most of these are the modern forms, not Old English.
>
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