For other American Anglophones who are as confused
as I was:
With three university degrees, I had no clue as to
what a "neb" was until I looked it up. It turns out that it's the
beak of a bird, a nose, or other projecting part. It is akin to the word
"nib," the point of a quill pen.
Google Language translates "schnabel" to English as
"bill." To me as a Southerner, both birds and caps have bills.
When I was a kid, "beak" was a Yankee word that I heard only on TV and
wondered what it meant.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
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Subject: AW: [BoundaryPoint] sedona
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"No idea what the name Sedona means". No idea either. But Schnebly
has a meaning: The little neb. Somehow, you Anglosaxons have lost the "sch"
in front of neb, while we Teutons keep it as a treasure: Schnabel. And Mrs.
Schnebly tells everybody - through her name - that she came from
Switzerland. Hope she has become happy in Sedona.
Wolfgang
Mike D. wrote:
> when i was at the library here this morning i found
it closed for cleanup
> including reburnishing of the statue ofthe local
benefactress sedona miller schnebly
> after whom the town was named
> no idea what the name sedona means
> but havent ruled out the possibility of a brother
sedohtac
According to the Sedona Historical Society web site at
http://www.sedonamuseum.org/sedona.html ,
when Sedona Miller Schnebly was born in 1877 in Gorin, Missouri, her
Pennsylvania Dutch mother "just thought up" the name "Sedona," for her
daughter because it had a pretty sound.
So, Mrs. Schnebly has joined the likes of Mercedes
Daimler and Edsel Ford in having an automobile named after her first name
(the Kia Sedona minivan). How eponymous!
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana,
USA
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