Hi List, Perhaps one of you German speakers can tell me if "Fred" is a nickname for Gottfried. I know that it applies for Friedrich. Thanks, Nancy Helvey

On 20 Mar 2000 Nancy Helvey <nlh@rmci.net> wrote: > Perhaps one of you German speakers can tell me if "Fred" is a nickname > for Gottfried. I know that it applies for Friedrich. > > Thanks, > Nancy Helvey > The English translation by Edda gentry of Hans Bahlow's "Deutsches Namenlexikon" (Dictionary of German Names) gives "Gotte" and the even shorter form "Gott" as Upper German short forms of Gottfried. I do not believe it would be Fred. I have seen one instance where the German Christian name Gottfried became Godfrey in the U.S. My Swiss relative Gottlieb Schild is sometimes called by the nickname "Goti". Lyle G. Hartman Landenberg, Pennsylvania