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The common names Schmidt and Schmitz lead in the central German-speaking and eastern Low German-speaking areas. Meyer is particularly common in the Low German-speaking regions, especially in Lower Saxony (where it is more common than Müller). Bauer leads in eastern Upper German-speaking Bavaria. Rarer names tend to accumulate in the north and ...
Old High German (OHG; German: Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050. Rather than representing a single supra-regional form of German, Old High German encompasses the numerous West Germanic dialects that had undergone the set of consonantal ...
North German surnames (12 P) Pages in category "German-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,552 total.
Germanic name. Germanic given names are traditionally dithematic; that is, they are formed from two elements, by joining a prefix and a suffix. For example, King Æþelred 's name was derived from æþele, meaning "noble", and ræd, meaning "counsel". However, there are also names dating from an early time which seem to be monothematic ...
Low German surnames (87 P) S. Swiss-German surnames (102 P) Pages in category "Surnames of German origin"
F. Faber-Castell family. Falke family. House of Falkenstein. House of Falkenstein (Bavaria) Template:Family tree of the House of Nassau. Template:Family tree of the House of Nassau-den Lek. Template:Family tree of the House of Nassau-Dillenburg. Template:Family tree of the House of Nassau-Grimhuizen.
Colloquially, surname variants for women continue to appear in some German dialects. In Bavarian dialect surnames of women sometimes are formed by adding the ending "-in", used in standard High German to indicate noun variants for women or items of grammatical feminine gender, such as Näherin (seamstress), with Näher (seamster) being the male ...
Finkelstein (Hebrew: פֿינק(ע)לשׁטײַן or פינקלשׁט(י)ין, Russian: Финкельштейн) is a German and Yiddish surname originating from Old High German funko (spark) and stein (stone). [1] Fünkelstein meant pyrite (George J. Adler, A Dictionary of the German and English Languages, 1848).
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