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	Family name - Genealogy
		A family name, or surname, is the part of a person's name that indicates to what family he or she belongs.
		It is extremely rare for men in Western countries to take the name of their wives; this was chiefly done in the Middle Ages, when a man from a low-born family was marrying an only daughter from a higher-status family, and was thus designated to carry on his wife's family name.
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	genealogy.wikia.com /wiki/Family_name (5392 words)

	Wikipedia: German language
		German (Deutsch) is one of the world's major languages, a member of the western group of Germanic languages.
		German is a member of the West branch of the Germanic family of languages, which in turn is part of the Indo-European language family
		German is the only official language in Germany, Liechtenstein and Austria; it shares official status in Belgium (with French and Dutch), Italy (with Italian, French and Slovenian), Switzerland (with French, Italian and Romansh), and Luxembourg (with French and Luxembourgish).
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/g/ge/german_language.html (902 words)

	German family name etymology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This name could be combined with a profession such like Rosenbauer (rose-farmer, from the farmstead 'the rose') or Kindlmüller (child's miller, from a mill named 'the christmas child', 'the prodigal child' or 'the kings child').
		Sometimes this names would survive in their original form, sometimes the spelling would be adapted to German (the Slavic ending ic becoming the German -itz or -itsch).
		A prime example are the names of the French Hugenots settling east of Berlin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_family_name_etymology (826 words)

	Family name etymology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scottish: reduced form of Macilchrum, an Americanized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Chruim ‘son of the servant of the cripple’.
		Huber: the German name is derived from Huober, a farmer holding a fief.
		Wolfgang: A wolves' cave (gang), a German family name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Family_name_etymology (387 words)

	Family name - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The second was usually the name of the godfather or godmother, while the third and last given name was the name used in everyday situations.
		Historically, when the family name reform was introduced in the mid 19th century, the default was to use a patronym, or a matronym when the father was dead or unknown.
		Village names are also often used, but the family name is crucial in north India as it links a person to their caste and clan.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Surname (6493 words)

	German_language information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		German is spoken primarily in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, in two-thirds of Switzerland, in the South Tirol province of Italy (in German, SÃ¼dtirol), in the small East Cantons of Belgium, and in some border villages of the South Jutland County (in German, Nordschleswig, in Danish, SÃ¸nderjylland) of Denmark.
		German immigrants were instrumental in the country's three largest urban areas: Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, but post-WWII immigrants managed to preserve a fluency in the German language in their respective neighborhoods and sections.
		German is a member of the western branch of the Germanic family of languages, which in turn is part of the Indo-European language family.
	www.school-explorer.com /German (6098 words)

	Jewish Family Names - An Introduction
		Family names used by Jews form a number of categories: for instance, there are names that Jewish families chose of their own will and names that were forced on them by the local authorities or gentile society.
		Family names Wiehl or Weill are anagrams of the biblical name Levi.
		Pressburger became the family name of an individual that either came or was associated with the city of Pressburg (now Bratislava, in Slovakia), Toledano was the name of someone who came from Toledo, in Spain, and Damari designated a family linked with the town of Damar, in Yemen.
	www.bh.org.il /Names/jfamilynames.asp (1030 words)

	ipedia.com: Family name Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is extremely rare for men in Western countries to take the name of their wives; this was chiefly done in the Middle Ages, when the man was from a low-born family and was marrying an only daughter, and was thus designated to carry on his wife's family name.
		In Spain and countries of Hispanic culture (former Spanish colonies), each person has two family names: the first is the first family name of the father; the second is the first family name of the mother; depending on the country, these may or may not be linked by the conjunction y (and).
		In other places like Iceland, most people have no real family name; the last name of a person is a modified form of the first name of the father (a patronymic custom) or, sometimes, of the mother.
	www.ipedia.com /family_name.html (1557 words)

	Hardie Family History - Origin of Surnames
		In ancient Greece a daughter was named after her father, as Chryseis, daughter of Chryses; and a son's name was often an enlargement for of his father's, as Hieronymus son of Hiero.
		Shakespeare's name is found in some twenty-seven different forms, and the majority of English and Anglo-American surnames have, in their history, appeared in four to a dozen or more variant spellings.
		While the name, in its origin, may seem ingenious, humble, surprising, or matter-of-fact, its significance today lies not in a literal interpretation of its initial meaning but in the many things that have happened to it since it first came into use.
	members.optusnet.com.au /hardiefamily/namemeanings/surnameorigin.htm (1185 words)

	Name Origins
		In German the word Strick literally translates as cord, string or rope, however research has shown that in this case the word Strick is used as a slang definition of a long narrow pathway that connected the Cloister of Einsiedeln (also Einselden) with the village of Wädenswil.
		The reason the name was changed or the exact timeframe for its transition from “am Strick” to Strickler is unknown.
		At least one German family near the town of Speyer changed the spelling of their name during the late 1770’s from Strickler to Striegler.
	www.geocities.com /ibersheim/name_origins.html (1064 words)

	Etymology - Psychology Wiki
		From Antiquity through the 17th century, from Pindar to Sir Thomas Browne, etymology has been a form of witty wordplay, in which the supposed origins of words were mythologized to satisfy contemporary requirements, much as myths were formed to explain archaic rituals that were no longer comprehensible.
		In his Odes Pindar spins complimentary etymologies to flatter his patrons.
		Although, it must be said, many of Nietzsche's etymologies are wrong, the strategy has gained popularity in the 20th century, with philosophers such as Jacques Derrida using etymologies to indicate former meanings of words with view to decentring the "violent hierarchies" of Western metaphysics.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Etymology (1278 words)

	German language - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Image:Map German World.png German is spoken primarily in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, in two-thirds of Switzerland, in two-thirds of the South Tyrol province of Italy (in German, Südtirol), in the small East Cantons of Belgium, and in some border villages of the South Jutland County (in German, Nordschleswig, in Danish, Sønderjylland) of Denmark.
		Outside of Europe and the former Soviet Union, the largest German speaking communities are to be found in the USA and in Brazil where millions of Germans migrated in the last 200 years; but the great majority of their descendants no longer speak German.
		German is the main language of about 100 million people in Europe (as of 2004), or 13.3% of all Europeans, being the most spoken native language in Europe excluding Russia, above French (66.5 million speakers in Europe in 2004) and English (64.2 million speakers in Europe in 2004).
	www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/German_language (4041 words)

	Behind the Name: German Names
		Greek form of an Aramaic name which probably meant "son of the prophet" (though it is claimed in Acts 4:36 to mean "son of encouragement")...
		From the Hebrew name בִנְיָמִין (Binyamin) which means "son of the south" or "son of the right hand"...
		From a Germanic name composed of the elements Angil "Angle" (the name of Germanic tribe) and beraht "bright"...
	www.behindthename.com /nmc/ger.php (924 words)

	FAMILY NAME MEANING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Huber: the German name is derived from Huober, a...
		This was the name of an Oriel family; that is, one from the area now encompassed by Counties Armagh and...
		Family Name History The surname Cline is local in origin, being...
	www.meaningofnamessite.com /familynamemeaning (794 words)

	Eymard Family Name Page -- Terry Eymard's Web Page
		This name was popular in the Frank kingdom, which included a large portion of France, in the Middle Ages (10th-12th century).
		In the North of France (North of the Loire river), country of "Oil" language, the name was written with an "A", whereas in the South, country of the "Hoc" or "Occitan" language, it was written with an "E".
		The Hemard family came to Louisiana in the early 1700's our name is spelled all three ways (Hemard/Eymard/Aymard) we come from the Lorrain region of France both to Canada and the US but we were not part of the Cajun migration.
	lafourche.k12.la.us /teymard/eymard (978 words)

	Learn more about German language in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is spoken primarily in Germany, Austria, the major part of Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Südtirol (South Tyrol) region of Italy, the Opole (Oppeln) Voivodship of Poland, parts of Belgium, parts of Romania and the Alsace (Elsass) region of France.
		Approximately 125 Million people have German as their mother tongue.
		The High German dialects spoken by Ashkenazi Jews have several unique features, and are usually considered the separate language Yiddish.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /g/ge/german_language.html (721 words)

	Language Miniatures 98: German names in the U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When you had to distinguish between several guys named Hans, you referred to him by something descriptive (that was usually already attached to him) that would narrow it down, such as 'Hans the son of Friedrich' or 'Hans the baker' or 'Hans by the creek' or 'Hans with the curly hair'.
		Like the name in the title: In Germany a Weissgerber was a tanner, and some families with that name anglicized it after they started speaking English here.
		Families from German-speaking countries may be a very large minority among European immigrants, but in their urge to adapt to a new spelling and a new language, they are all following a very familiar pattern.
	home.bluemarble.net /~langmin/miniatures/gername.htm (771 words)

	GOLDSBY: Etymology Of the Family Name
		There are many traditions about the origin of the name, some based on stories from ancestors, others on the meaning of the name in one's country of origin.
		The Norman family of Delehay or De la Haye, were granted it and it was one of that family in the Thirteenth Century founded the Benedictine Priory at Burwell.
		The estate remained in the possession of Delahay family for a century and a half and the last of the family.
	www.goldsbyfamily.info /Famname.htm (879 words)

	Surname Origin & Last Name Meanings. Free Family Name Dictionary with Family History & Genealogy Resources by Ancestor ...
		A surname, also known as a last name or family name, is a fixed name shared in common to identify the members of a family and is passed down from generation to generation.
		If you have ever wondered about the meaning of your last name, where your family lived, what they did, and how they looked, you may find your surname may answer some of these questions about your ancestors from many hundreds of years ago.
		In the 1800's and before, when many people were illiterate, surnames were written by clerks, officials, and priests as they heard the name pronounced which lead to different spellings of the same name.
	www.searchforancestors.com /surnames/origin (509 words)

	Etymologically Speaking...
		Grog is said to have taken its name from the nickname of "Old Grog" given to British Admiral Vernon by his sailors; much like Lord Mountbatten later, he was in the habit of wearing a kind of heavy coat of grogram, a coarse weatherproof fabric (the word comes from the French gros-grain).
		From the pre-Christian, Germanic term "riht", which was the sense of justice or balance that tribal elders attempted to achieve when determining the size of the "Bot." This is not to be confused with peace or "Friede," which could be achieved with differing amounts of "Bot" and was merely the cessation of fighting.
		The fruit's name differs in the various European languages, although those names deriving from Latin still suggest the exquisite fragrance that caused the small, scented berry to be termed fragaria vesca, "fragrant berry," in Latin.
	www.westegg.com /etymology (10416 words)

	A History of the English Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Of these branches of the Indo-European family, two are, for our purposes of studying the development of English, of paramount importance, the Germanic and the Romance (called that because the Romance languages derive from Latin, the language of ancient Rome, not because of any bodice-ripping literary genre).
		North Germanic evolved into the modern Scandinavian languages of Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Icelandic (but not Finnish, which is related to Estonian and is not an Indo-European language).
		West Germanic invaders from Jutland and southern Denmark: the Angles (whose name is the source of the words England and English), Saxons, and Jutes, began populating the British Isles in the fifth and sixth centuries AD.
	www.wordorigins.org /histeng.htm (2456 words)

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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/german_family_name_etymol... (121 words)

	Fuling Kids' Names
		Family names come first, so that a man named Huang Weilun would be formally addressed as Mr.
		Close family would probably call him "Lun," and when he was a little boy, his parents may have called him "Lun-lun" - doubling a name is a common form of endearment.
		At the Fuling SWI, all the children are given the family name Fu, which means "good luck." Note that the "fu" in "Fuling" is pronounced the same, but is written completely differently in Chinese and has a completely different meaning.
	www.fulingkids.org /names.htm (1296 words)

	Translation and Pronunciation Guide Overview and Instructions
		When names are formed by combining a word or name from a modern language with a Greek or Latin word suchs as "saurus," "suchus," "dactylus," "pes", etc. the secondary stress should try to follow the stress pattern typical of the original language.
		It is possible for a nomen dubium to be a valid name for purposes of nomenclature, although some researchers may not treat the taxon it designates as a "valid taxon" (i.e., a taxon recognized as distinct and diagnosable for purposes of taxonomy).
		Although a name designated as a nomen dubium may have a type specimen that is not diagnostic at a species level, the material nonetheless may be diagnostic at a family or a suborder level.
	www.dinosauria.com /dml/names/instruct.htm (6824 words)

	yourDictionary.com • Library: Origin of Pizza
		English belongs, with German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian to the family of Germanic languages, all of which are decended from a remote common ancestor called 'Proto-Germanic'.
		Italy in the second half of the first millennium AD was subject to the successive domination of two Germanic-speaking peoples, the Goths, who spoke an Eastern Germanic language, Gothic, now defunct, and the Langobards, whose language belonged to the same High Germanic group as modern German.
		In fact, it is possible that "pitta" reflects a form "petta" or "pitta" encountered in dialects of north-eastern Italy with the same meaning as "pizza", the Gothic equivalent of the Langobard word that gave rise to pizza.
	www.yourdictionary.com /library/pizza.html (403 words)

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		The greater portion of the family adopting the first modification (S-a-y-l-e-r), the author has used that method of spelling throughout the work.
		In this letter, relative to the spelling of the family name, Elder D. Sayler says: “The German e is the English a, and the German i has the sound of the English y; hence the Americanized name is spelled Sayler, and all who employ the o are in error.
		The German etymology of Sayler (originally Seiler) is rope-maker; and since family names were often derived from the occupation followed by the ones first taking the name, it is probable that some of the earlier members of the Seiler family in Switzerland followed the occupation of rope-making.
	saylerfamily.org (412 words)

	Family name etymology
		This is a collection of family name etymologies.
		For German names, see German family name etymology.
		Boyer: when German, can be a modification of "Bauer," farmer.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/f/fa/family_name_etymology.html (184 words)

	Amazon.com: German-American Names 2nd Edition: Books: George F. Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There is a 60-page introduction that explains where German names came from and tells how to use the dictionary.
		Here is explained the meanings of names borne today by Americans which derive from the German language or its dialects.
		The beginning of the book is a history of German names, including what happened to them in America.
	www.amazon.com /German-American-Names-2nd-George-Jones/dp/0806314818 (1073 words)

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