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THE MEANING OF YOUR POLISH LAST NAME?


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krysiaThreads: 26
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Szczęściarz - the lucky one
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Probably originally Szczęśniak - patronymic nick meaning "son of Szczęsny" (Felix).
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Nadolna ??
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Nadolna is the name of a village in Radom district of Mazowsze voivodship south of Warsaw. (Eng. equiv.: Downville, Lowerton???) It is also a surname used by more than 2,500 people in Poland.
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tobolkiewicz
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99% of the time a -wicz ending indicates a patronymic nick. Someone could have been nicknamed Tobolek because he came from Tobolice or Tobolowo, and when he fathered a son... presto! - TOBOLKIEWICZ
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i don't think i am ever going to find out because noone can find my grandfather's last name anywhere.... Sad to say, someone said to check Auschwitz.. can that be?
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Melanie_M:
someone said to check Auschwitz.. can that be?

There is a list of names.
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I don't know if it spelled right. But my Father said our name in polish is "jazgracz". I can only go back to my Grandfather when I search for this name. I can only trace my family back to around 1920. They lived in Shomkin, Penna.
The only word I found in Polish that is close to it is a word for a fish.
The english spelling of the name is Yesgosh
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Indeed, it must be Jazgarz (ruff, a small fish of the perch family). But someone known for making a racket and raising a rumpus (jazgot) might have been humorously nicknamed Jazgarz as well. And let's not forget the toponymic possibility -- a nick for someone from Jazgarka, Jazgarew or -- watch out! -Jazgarzewszczyzna.
njmmkm  Sep 9, 09, 06:19    #401
Hafia or (Ahafia) Kapeluch and John Holod were my great grandparents, immigrated to USA from Nowica in ~1896 (born in ~1874) and settled in southwest PA (after a time in Luzerne County, PA) Is Holod really the family name or had he change it? What would be the polish/ukraine version of John Holod? What does Hafia Kapeluch mean? How would I find out more information about their parents/family? - Thanks, Miriam
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Hafia sounds Jewish. Kapeluch could mean hat (Hafia the Hatter?) Holod would be Ukrainian for hunger or starvation, in Polish - głód. The odl Polish-Lithuanian Commowealth was a mish-mash of crisscrossing ethnicites, and people's naems did not always reflect their ancestral roots.
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Polonius3:
Hafia sounds Jewish

No it doesn't. It just looks a bit like "Haifa" but it's not related.
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Sorry. I fell into the Haifa trap. Ahafia or just Hafia is the Ukrainian for Agata (Eng.: Agatha), originally of Gr. origin (Agathos) meaning kind or good.
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evajean:
Onofrejczuk

Sounds Ukrainian. Son of Onufry. Onufry is a name.
For instance
polishpride5  Sep 13, 09, 04:28    #406
does anyone know the meaning of the surname Czymmek?, it is polish and is supposedly prussian, back when prussia was still a country. Our family has been searching for ages, I think it was first spelled Symek or something of that nature before we moved here.

there are many variations actually but they are all roughly pronounced zimik
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With so many varants, there is little to work with. One person in Poland signs himself Zimik, there are a few Czymmeks and four times as many with one "m" -- Czymek.
There are also a few people named Symek.
Symek might be the way Anglos would tend to pronounce Czymek or Czymmek.
Did you mean German Prussians or Baltic Prussians slaughtered, to a many by the Germans?
The original Prussian was a Baltic, but a Slavonic tongue. The -ek ending is clearly Slavonic.
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Lesinski
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Lesiński - las~leś root (wood, forest); most likely toponymic nick from Lesiny (Forestville).
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mowinski
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jimmie:
mowinski

mowinski = can be "mówiński" which can be explained as "saying too much"
krapko = i think its a part-name of a city :) like krapko-wice krapko-rzecze itp itd. :)
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Does anyone know the origin of the name Lechwar?
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Possibly a variant spelling of lekwarz (a plum pomade once used in medicine, now mainly in cakes and pastries).
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Laski:
any thoughts on lechwar? or laski?

lechwar can be a splot of Lech (first name) and War (from Warmia - polish region)
laski = "chicks" :P it also can be a name of a city Łask-łaski
suszika  Sep 15, 09, 23:46    #415
Polonius3
I would like to know about the name Slenczka (in English) and Sleczka (in Polish. Not sure which s you would use.
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ŚLĘCZKA (the proper spelling) in Polish peasant dialect once meant a woman not invited to a wedding who would stand outside and peer through the window at the festivities. Maybe not a party-crasher but rather a party-peeper. The masculine equivalent is Ślęczek.
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Capeluck1:
im also looking for some heritage details my great grandfather moved to Canada from Russia and his last name was Kapeluch but was changed to Capeluck which is my last name now but everything i've found leads me to believe its Ukrainian in origin is this correct?

Kapeluch - the augmentative* form of kapelusz (hat), is a bona fide Polish word. It came into Polish from middle Latin capellus. That does not mean that it does not also exist in Ukrainian. From a lingusitic standpoint, we cannot go beyond that statement. To determine the ethnicity of your ancestor, you would have to consult a professional genealogist.

* augmentative -- a grammatical form that makes something sound bigger, coarser or more overwhelming that the original; eg -- pies (dog), psisko (big, old, nasty cur).
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Joined: Sep 17, 09 ♀ 		 Sep 19, 09, 09:00    #418
Levandovski - I'm betting that you're Jewish. "Levan" = "Levin" ?; and "Levin" is derived from "Levi".

"Dov" is "bear" in Hebrew, as I just found out. A son of a Levite bear is who you are, perhaps.
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Nickidewbear:
Levandovski - I'm betting that you're Jewish. "Levan" = "Levin" ?; and "Levin" is derived from "Levi".

knock on your forehaed little bear :)

Lewandowski is most propably from a place name (say Lewanda/Lewandy which in turn comes from 'lawenda' (lavender) (being a corrupted form but these were quite common in folk speech)

you should consider Portnoy name origins as in Phillip Roth :P
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There was once a neighbourhood called Lewandów in right-bank Warsaw's Białołęka area.
Also a locality called Lewandowszczyzna in the Lublin region, and these are the most common sources of the Lewandowski surname.
Any Polish surname may have been used by someone of Jewish descent, but the actual source of Lewandowski does not seem Hebrew or Yiddish.
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