The word "dutch" comes from the same root as deutsch.
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The meaning of you're family name
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The word "dutch" comes from the same root as deutsch.
Leifmk
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Mine, too, is just the name of the place where my family (well, my father's side of the family) lived at the time when the law requiring fixed surnames for everyone came along. (Before then, an informal mix of patronymics, location names, job titles and other epithets was used to distinguish between different individuals with the same first name. To some extent, this usage continued in parallell with official surnames for a long time.)
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Musser. Which means somebody was a farmer or something in Germany.
Fifty
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He who boycotts Swingtown.
CaptainF
The Professional Poster
I believe mine means "by the field" in German.
alcal
surfin'
What do you have against germans?
See the first post...
holy king
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never heard that name. looks like the noun of "to must". (which doesnt exist)
HannibalBarka
We are Free
mine means "little wolf" in arabic
Mine is a place name deriving from a region in Germany.
Oerdin
Deity
Son of Jack.
IIRC, more Germans immigrated to the US than any other group.
Margim
Footy's back.
Hunter.
Not that difficult to figure out.
Not that difficult to figure out.
Chazumi
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IIRC there was a serious debate about the national language, pretty much deadlocked between German and English.
My last name means "son of a fisherman" in irish. Apparently "Mc" as in "McDonald" "McArthur" "McCormick" means "son of" and then the afterword which is their speciality.
SuperBeaverInc.
Groucho
Mines pretty simple.
A person who bakes.
A person who bakes.
Mine says I'm a descendant of pirate queen Gráinne Mhaol Uí Mhaolmaigh, so I'm also descended from the Uí Mhaolmaigh clan.
No, the afterword is the name of the father (some Gaels passed on nicknames instead). Traditionally, a person's surname would consist of Mac [insert father's name], then Ó [insert grandfather, or powerful ancestor here], but it changed over time so many would stick with the Mac [father's name]. In some places people have surnames of Mac [father] Mac [grandfather] Mac [great-grandfather], and so on, as far back as they could go.
No, the afterword is the name of the father (some Gaels passed on nicknames instead). Traditionally, a person's surname would consist of Mac [insert father's name], then Ó [insert grandfather, or powerful ancestor here], but it changed over time so many would stick with the Mac [father's name]. In some places people have surnames of Mac [father] Mac [grandfather] Mac [great-grandfather], and so on, as far back as they could go.
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