<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 26 June 2007 - Volume 04</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_dan_how@msn.com" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Danette & John Howland <<a href="mailto:dan_how@msn.com">dan_how@msn.com
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My wife, an American-born Finn, is another kind of Haagen/Hawn/Hahn.
Her maiden name is Hakkinen, which I assume means a hedge, park or
enclosure. <br>
John Howland<br></div>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: Names</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Hi, John! I believe this is your first posting. Welcome!</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Isn't the original spelling of the name Häkkinen? </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Interesting! I'm familiar with Finnish </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">häkki </span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">in the sense of 'cage'. I never thought of it as going back to one of those old Germanic loans in Finnish. (Duh!) So I assume it goes back to Germanic *
</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">haga(z)</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> 'fenced enclosure' (> E. "haw")</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> or *</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">hagjō</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> 'hedge' (cf. German <span style="font-style: italic;">
Hecke</span>).</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">