[ccmay]

We are not talking about archaic German.

Hey, Hitler and his henchmen named the "Lebensborn" program, not me. Take it up with them. Hitler loved archaic and poetic German; he saw it as patriotic.

Here's a page in German containing the text "Born = Brunnen/Quelle". It has a picture of a village water fountain beside it for the linguistically challenged such as yourself: Bornum am Elm. It notes that "Born" is a Low German term for what would be called "Brunnen" or "Quelle" in High German, i.e. a well or source.

Oh, and here's a page from a German thesaurus: Synonyme Born, Brunnen, Quelle.

I stand by my criticism.

Feel free, but know that your criticism is based on dubious sources (heh heh) like Wikipedia, would not be shared by any native speaker of German, and gives you precious little standing from which to criticize the research of others.

-ccm

[raybbr]

Here's a page in German containing the text "Born = Brunnen/Quelle". It has a picture of a village water fountain beside it for the linguistically challenged such as yourself: Bornum am Elm. It notes that "Born" is a Low German term for what would be called "Brunnen" or "Quelle" in High German, i.e. a well or source.

Okay. I stand corrected.

I did more than search wikipedia. There were several sources that referred to "lebensborn" as "source of life" and not "fountain of life".