Talk:Lauterbrunnen

Translation questionable

I would question the derivation: lauter meaning clear or bright. I am familiar with 'Lauter' being used in just two senses: 1) louder, and 2) as in 'Lauterkeit', meaning honest. --Philopedia 13:59, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

++re: Translation Questionable ++

The writer is not correct. While "lauter" means louder in High German, In Swiss German this would be " luter ". In my opinion Lauterbrunnen means Clean Well; Brunnen meaning Well or Fountain. ( compare with "Lauterbach" < clean creek )-- 139.142.244.136 (talk)04:19, 6 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(I question that you can have an opinion on ^a general meaning_s)

Misled by a good association. You need to keep in mind that translations and firm, direct, unanabigeous connections between words in two different languages do hardly exist.
Die richtige Erklärung lautet (näherungsweise) (: ≈'The right explanation is (approximately) [as you can/will hear/see)':

Lauter also in composites is the name of several waterbodies and other places in (formaly) Deutsch speaking regions and does indeed refer to the quality of the water in means of its clear visual aspect, its healthiness or both. It appears in names like Kaiserslautern, Lauterach, Lauterstein also in Variations like Lutter.
This was transfered on the one side figureativly on personality as 'untarnished by bad behaviour or thinking'. Lauterkeit or Läuterung (the process of clearing water or freeing from sin and such) are hardly used or even known nowerdays.
On the other side laut, lauter, am lautesten/lautester ≈ 'loud, louder, loudest' can be traced back to 'clearly pronounced and understandable' or 'in a bright tone'. kleinlaut ('smallloud' ≈ sheepish), vorlaut ≈≈ 'pert'
der Laut (noun≈ 'the sound, tone, auditory object/event, phoneme') has many offshots: Selbstlaut (≈≈'sounding by itself') 'Vowel', Umlaut ≈mutated vowel (ä,ö,ü),...
laut Einstein ≈ 'according to Einstein'
die Laute ≈ 'the lute' (medieval guitar like instrument)
You can also find another distant derivat like in the famous saying "Den Wald vor lauter Bäumen nicht sehen" (≈ "Not to see the forest because of all the trees.") or the commonly used "...vor lauter Aufregung..." ≈ somewhat "distracted by exitement" or "...vor lauter Eile... 'for all the hurry' apparently having the more detailed meaning, that something more bright, intense or obvious captures perception making other things overseen or forgotten, while today more likely perceived as 'a unmanageable large amount or multitude of'.
Thank You for the oportunity and joy to delve into (my mother)language.

Oeconormal (talk) 08:05, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The first writer does not know much German. English is my native language, but I am fluent in German. The last writer is correct, but strays from the point. Lauterbrunnen obviously is derived from "lauter" meaning that the water from the Brunnen is clear and clean. In his video about the region, Rick Steves translated it incorrectly as "louder" -- which the word can mean, but certainly not in this context! I think the section on the toponym should be changed to reflect this.Ajrocke (talk) 15:17, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Jungfrau?

Is there any reason why the Jungfrau is not mentioned on this page?

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is this the place where a lot of people go skydiving?

i did some research and i think this is the place but i would like someone else's opinion on that 37.162.13.147 (talk) 09:35, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]