tayacy.blogg.se - Surname origin

The ancient root, "Ziege" means "goat" and although a literal translation of "Ziegenbusch" can be "goat bush" there is yet another, and even more interesting! In ancient days, whenever the wine of the new harvest was ready for drinking, the inn or tavern keepers would hang a piece of greenery, such as a limb of a bush, on their doorframe to so indicate the new wine was ready. An interesting name in which this suffix is highlighted is the name, "Ziegenbusch".

The suffix "en" essentially meant "at" the terrain feature the "en" followed.

Incidentally, some names end in "ert" but the addition of the "t” neither adds nor subtracts anything from the meaning of the name the "t" was added to help in pronunciation indicating that the "r" was not to be trilled. From these several examples it is seen that the specific geographical location is both necessary and important for an accurate interpretation of one's name. "Er" can also mean that the person “Lisa doer of something", for example, the name "Becker" can mean a "baker" (as well as a dweller, or farm owner on a stream).

"er" originally meant that the person whose name ended in"er" was an owner of a farm at the terrain feature indicated by the two "roots", for example, the name, "Rothenberger" would mean that a person by the name of Rothenberg owned a farm at "red mountain" in time it also meant a dweller at, or near, or on red mountain.

There are various suffixes (or root endings ) of interest, which earlier were of considerable importance:

There are at least three such tautological names in the local area: Mesloh meaning "swampy low forest" or simply "swampy forest", (the tautology being that a "low forest" grows Gina swamp Huckriede meaning "marsh-reed marsh" Klipfels meaning"cliff-cliff" and so one would conclude that the Meslohs lived minor near a very swampy place, the Huckriedes in or near avery marshy place, and the Klipfels on a very high or steep or prominent (winsome aspect) cliff. Another example would be the name "Richwald" as "rich" meant ruler and "wald" meant ruler and so the name meant, ruler-ruler (please note, the ancient root "wald" meant ruler but today "wald” means forest). For example, an expert or adept swordsman might choose or be given the name "Schwerdecke" by his fellow warriors "schwerd" meaning sword, and "ecke" meaning sword so the name meant, sword-sword. Whenever the Germans wanted to emphasize some particular aspect of their “being”, they used a tautological name by tautological, it is meant that the name consisted of two different roots, but with each root having the same meaning. This name was very important to the Germans, for it represented that whatever they were today, whatever they would be tomorrow, and whatever virtues they would pass along to their namesakes, all lay in that "name" and so the Germans chose their name very carefully. This "name" was composed of two syllables with each syllable representing a "root", and each "root" having a specific meaning. It was not a first name, or a last name, it was just a "name". The earliest German names were just a single name. Jones’ book in each of the four local libraries: New Bremen, New Knoxville, Minster and St. (Incidentally, Wayne Wenning, of “The Evening Leader", placed a copy of Dr.

In thisand four ensuing articles, a look will be taken at the origins, and an attempt will be made to interpret as many of the German names on “The Towpath" mailing list as possible. Jones wrote a most interesting and informative book on the subject titled, "German American Names", in which he interpreted 12,700 names.

Those of you who have German ancestors, did you ever wonder what your surname (last name) means, or how it originated? Dr. Mesloh - New Bremen, Ohioįor “ The Towpath” January 1993 - January 1994 German Surnames – Their Meaning & Origin By Karl R.