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2026-06-01 18:39 UTC
@wendigo@metalhead.club apologies if you know this already, but fwiw the river that flows through Heidelberg is known today as the "Neckar". I'm no expert on archaic German spelling, nor on dialect or just immigration-error variation, but it occurs to me that "Nicar" could well be a variant spelling of that name, implying I'd imagine an origin in the vicinity of Heidelberg or the associated river valley.
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@stefan_hessbrueggen@fedihum.org 2026-06-01 18:53
@paregorios@hcommons.social my guess: derived from the French name "Nicard", Huguenot refugees in Heidelberg. @wendigo@metalhead.club
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@manankanchu@mastodon.social 2026-06-01 18:54
@paregorios@hcommons.social @wendigo@metalhead.club Could very well be the case ... there are discussions, that "Nikar" is the original celtic name for river "Neckar" (German) or "Nicer" (ancient Roman latin)