LL-L "Names" 2011.12.14 (01) [EN]

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From: David Pinto <david_e_pinto at yahoo.ca>; <uwoltmann at gmx.de>
 Subject: LL-L 'Etymology' 2007.01.28 (05) [E/LS]

Hi,

Dave Pinto here in Montreal, Canada

Now that I finally have my own computer, I am slowly going through
thousands of posts.

Question:

Why do a lot of Belgian family names end in nckx, e.g. Luc Hellinckx?

As well, how do you pronounce such a name -- it is as it sounds, e.g.
hellinks? The n presumably is nasalised, since it would be hard to
pronounce the n in the usual way, with the ks consontal cluster following
immediately afterwards.

David
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