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I was wondering if anyone can share any information they have on the name Janssen? My grandfather traced our origins back to northern Germany. Thanks for the help everyone.
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Johannes gives you John in English and Jan in northern Germanic languages like Dutch and the Scandinavian languages.
-sen is just a way of writing -son (we don't actually pronounce the o sound, we just make a vague little noise called the neutral vowel, so in Scandinavia in particular they spell it with an e to show it's an unstressed syllable.
Johnson is a common surname in English, and Janssen is the same - Jan's son!
-sen is just a way of writing -son (we don't actually pronounce the o sound, we just make a vague little noise called the neutral vowel, so in Scandinavia in particular they spell it with an e to show it's an unstressed syllable.
Johnson is a common surname in English, and Janssen is the same - Jan's son!
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'N th' Yoonit'd Stayts uv 'Mer'cuh, we d'nt pern'ns arr vow'ls ver' m'ch.
Y''l'm ;P
Y''l'm ;P
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