Behind the Name: Message: "Bode"

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Subject:	Bode
Author:	Elea (Authenticated as Elea)
Date:	February 18, 2007 at 3:19:51 AM
Reply to:	Wenche, Bode and Chemmy by Caprice

This is what the "Dictionary of American Family Names" ed. Hanks, P. has for the surname Bode:

1.Dutch and German: occupational name for a messenger or representative, Dutch bode, Middle Low German bode. A bode was a medieval official with a variety of different functions.

2.German and Danish: from the North German personal name Bodo, a derivative of Old Saxon bodo ‘messenger’.

3.North German and Dutch: a topographic name from Middle Low German bode, bude ‘booth’, ‘small house’.

4.Danish: habitational name from a place named Bode.

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Wenche, Bode and Chemmy - Caprice Feb 17 2007, 12:54:31 PM
- Re: Chemmy - Lora Feb 20 2007, 2:53:04 PM
- Thanks to both of you! n/t - Caprice Feb 18 2007, 12:28:50 PM
- Bode - Elea Feb 18 2007, 3:19:51 AM
- Wenche and Bode - Satu Feb 17 2007, 2:23:44 PM

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