Theumis
Theumis is a variant of the first name Thomas , common in the southern Lower Saxony region .
The linguistic origin has not yet been precisely clarified. What is certain is that the name for the first time in the villages Eddigehausen and Bovenden , north of Göttingen , from dialect was spoken out.
The name is also mentioned in a children's song that has been handed down there since around 1920 :
"Use ( our ) Bauer Theumis has a Gauckel ( Gockel, Hahn )
did sin ( be ) Gauckel shrine '
to everyone did rejoice'
he shouts at seubin ( seven ) days
up de Mistehagen ( Hagen: Mountain, heaps; here: dunghill , today also neighborly: Komposthagen )
literature
- Bombosch-Nette, Claudia: Castle, miners and building sites. Eddigehausen 1192-1992