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Re: My last name is weird
Hi Brendan,I would guess it has got something to do with Polish "kapica" which means hood, cowl.
Satu
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Satu,You probably know a lot more about this stuff than I, but isn't the
"-ke" ending to a surname characteristic of East Prussia or Pomerania? That would sure be consistent with the Polish root word.- Da.
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Hi Daividh,you are right, the –ke suffix comes from Slavic names with endings like –ka, -ek, -ak etc. when they were Germanized. That happened, of course, mostly in the eastern parts of Germany like East Prussia or Pomerania.In the northwest of Germany the –ke suffix is a Low German and Frisian form of German –chen which is a diminutive ending.Satu
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Thanks!
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