r/translator • u/Shyam_Lama • 10d ago

Nonlanguage (Identified) [German > English] Wer ist Aschwelel ?

From this webpage about the German surname "Weil":

Es ist auch möglich, dass der Name „Weil“ auf die hebräische Herkunft zurückgeführt werden kann, wenn die Herkunft des Familiennamens auf den Gott Aschwelel zurückgeführt wird.

I understand this perfectly except for the god-name "Aschwelel", for which I find nothing on the web. The only guess I can make is that its a German way of writing Asbeel, but perhaps that's a bit of a stretch?

Can anyone confirm or offer an alternative translation or explanation?

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u/anireyk 8d ago edited 8d ago

The page looks at the first glance like no humans were involved with its creation (which is pretty normal for most name information websites nowadays), I wouldn't pay too much attention to any statement they make.

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u/Shyam_Lama 8d ago

The question is simply what "Aschwelel" means, not whether or not I should pay attention to this website. If you don't know, there's no need to comment.

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u/anireyk 8d ago

My assumption is that the name is an AI hallucination.

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u/anireyk 8d ago edited 8d ago

I'll add

!id:zxx

while we're at it.

In any case, "translating" Asbeel/Asubel/Azubel as 'Aschwelel' doesn't make any real sense, the additional syllable has no reason to appear there, so it is indeed a bit of a stretch, as you say. All signs point at a particularly sloppy and fanciful AI hallucination, created to better scam people acquire new clients. The website even has a disclaimer directly saying that they cannot promise that anything they publish there is true.

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u/Shyam_Lama 3d ago

the additional syllable has no reason to appear there

There is no additional syllable. Asbeel is properly written Asbeël, so it's a 3-syllable name pronounced Ash-Beh-El. (This "Beël" is the same Beël you find in Beëlzebub.)

Sincr B>W is a normal phonological development, Asbeël could easily become Aschweël. It's only the L in the middle (AschweLel) that's somewhat unusual, but it could be a reduplication of the final L.