Schoenmaker (was V)

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

In German, Schoenmacher (or Schoenmacher, to be exact) would be 
beautiful-maker, not a word that exists but that could be cobbled 
together in the German fashion. The '-maker' however leads me 
to believe that one should rather look at Dutch (or Plattdeutsch, 
or Yiddish) for the origin of Schoenmaker. In Afrikaans, which is 
very much like Dutch, skoenmaker means shoemaker, whereas 'skoon' 
would be beautiful. I've always assumed Schoenmaker means shoemaker 
(wasn't Pinocchio's maker a shoemaker?)... but who nose (ugh). 
Anyone with a Dutch (or Yiddish) dictionary out there?

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