Linguistic origin of surnames in your family!

**paksaltopam** · 03-09-2014, 03:08 AM

My last name is the anglicized version of the Danish name which also happens to be the Swedish version.

**Smaug** · 03-09-2014, 03:15 AM

Venetian, Gaelic, Brythonic, Anglo-Saxon and Iberian, but I carry only too, an Anglo-Saxon and an Italo-Gaulish.

**Burkean** · 03-09-2014, 08:19 AM

Originally Posted by Peyrol

A dying culture unfortunately

Yes, republican centralism made his work( If I am not mistaken, regional cultures and languages are publically stimulated in France, but this has no great effect.

**Óttar** · 03-09-2014, 08:37 AM

Turner. (My surname from my maternal grandfather) English. Meaning one who works with wood. Related to Wheeler (a wheel turns, making wood in earlier times) related to French le Torneau.

Some other surnames from my maternal line: Bostwick (English. Anglo-Saxon), Farnsworth (English. Some who migrated to French Canada became Farnoeuf), Romaine (French. From il Romano, Italian. a name often adopted by someone who had studied in Rome) Huguenots had passed through France, and then the Netherlands, to England and on to America. Brundage (~Brundish, Welsh), Meekins (English. ~ Makin, Macon (French? Macon - Mason ???)

Paternal line: Hughes (English, Welsh, Irish), Dunn (Irish), Meehan (Irish) Collier (French "coal-miner", Irish), Meyer (German. "Merchant" or "Peasant"), Klein (German. "Small")

**JohnSmith** · 03-09-2014, 12:15 PM

I have italian surnames which are Germanic,Albanian and Greek in origin.

**Catkin** · 03-09-2014, 12:36 PM

One is an Anglo-Saxon patronymic surname. The other apparently is most likely derived from old Norse, though it could also come from Anglo-Saxon. The earliest recorded use of it is in the 1200s in north-east England, and the guy then had the same first name as my grandad with this surname.

**Pjeter Pan** · 03-09-2014, 01:17 PM

My last name was my great great great great great great great great great great...etc grandpas first name. I don't know if it has a meaning.

Peyrol · 03-09-2014, 10:43 PM

Originally Posted by Burkean

Yes, republican centralism made his work( If I am not mistaken, regional cultures and languages are publically stimulated in France, but this has no great effect.

Not at all...for example last years Corsica voted for the co-officiality of corsican with french, and many (mainland) french politicians said that ''french must be the official language of the republic, in all the departments''.

Corsican is indeed an interesting language...it's probabily the romance language closest to standard italian (tuscan)...i can understand 99,9% of the spoken and written words

**Shah-Jehan** · 03-09-2014, 10:46 PM

Surnames in my family are mostly of Arabic, Sanskrit or Persian origin.

**Comte Arnau** · 03-12-2014, 03:42 PM

Originally Posted by Burkean

Yes, republican centralism made his work( If I am not mistaken, regional cultures and languages are publically stimulated in France, but this has no great effect.

Publically stimulated? Lol. They're even unconstitutional. France is the Western country that has killed its linguistic diversity the most, in the name of a Republican unity that downgraded the languages other than French to the level of patois, to the point that most of their speakers really believed to be speaking a 'corrupted French'.

Funnily enough, they have now a different map of linguistic diversity... with languages that are not native to the country.