Message: "BRISKO" - Behind the Name

BRISKO

by Andy ;—) (guest)

1/31/2011, 5:31 AM

We are having a young guest (male) who goes by BRISKO. He claims it's Slavonic and means "wise." My guess would have been >FRISCO >FRANCESCO. I can't find it in any of my books.

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- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans) +2

2/1/2011, 11:02 AM

According to Knaurs Vornamenbuch, Brisko is a Slavic pet form of Friedrich. (I'm not sure how that works linguistically myself, but that's what it says!)

- Rene

2/1/2011, 11:19 PM

A Google search for "Brisko Friedrich" turns up more than a dozen pages on the German-language Internet with this info. They look as if they all come from a common source, maybe originally from Wilfried Seibicke, the German linguist that specialised in names.

- Andy ;—) (guest)

2/1/2011, 1:13 PM

Thanks for this piece of information!

Andy ;—)

- Andy ;—) (guest)

1/31/2011, 9:22 AM

I forgot to say that the boy is German with a German mother, an American father, and a French grandmother. Unfortunately I won't have a chance to ask the parents where they got the name from.

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