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Re: after a meaning
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See here: http://snipurl.com/e7dwA brief summary: "The Kurgan people were an Indo-European culture existing during the fifth, fourth, and third millennia BC; they lived in northern Europe, from Russia across Germany."~ Caitlín

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"The Kurgan people" and "the Kurgan culture" are just archeology terms. "Kurgan" is not an ethnonym. "Kurgan" is a loan word in Russian meaning "hill". Archeologists found that culture "under the hills" and thus gave it that name.Nevertheless, there is a personal name Kurgan. It probably has either Turkic or Iranian origin. Its meaning is unknown to me.
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I've only seen Kurgan as a surname - a friend of mine at university was Avril Kurgan; they're Jews, if that helps.
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