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View Name: Gerlach


GERLACH
GENDER: Masculine
USAGE: Dutch, Ancient Germanic
PRONOUNCED: KHER-lahkh (Dutch)   [key]
Meaning & History
Derived from the Germanic element ger "spear" combined with laic "play". Saint Gerlach was a 12th-century Dutch soldier who became a hermit.



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