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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 13 August 2007 - Volume 01</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Marcus Buck <<a href="mailto:list@marcusbuck.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">list@marcusbuck.org</a>>
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</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.08.12 (03) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: Hafoc <<a href="mailto:zauter@adelphia.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">zauter@adelphia.net</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:zauter@adelphia.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
zauter@adelphia.net</a>>><br></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span>><br>> Subject: Help with a Name<br>><br>> If one has the German surname Zauter in one's ancestry and the word
<br>> "zaut"<br>> is Limburgish for the English word "salt", is it likely then that the<br>> surname is of Limburgish origin?<br>><br>> Thank you in advance for your assistance. If this isn't the kind of
<br>> question one should be asking on this list serv, then please excuse me.<br>><br>> [Ken Zauter]<br>><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">It is not likely, I guess. It is not very likely, that such dialectal
<br>forms are used in surnames. This is most times only the case, if the<br>people are not aware of the origin of the dialectal form any more. You<br>can search for the distribution of German surnames here:<br><<a href="http://christoph.stoepel.net/geogen/v3/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://christoph.stoepel.net/geogen/v3/</a>>, Belgian ones here:<br><<a href="http://www.familienaam.be/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.familienaam.be/</a>> and Dutch ones here:
<br><<a href="http://www.familienaam.nl/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.familienaam.nl/</a>>. In Belgium and the Netherlands there are<br>no Zauters at all, in Germany there are 41 persons with this name. But
<br>they are scattered in the whole country and there is no distribution<br>center. Perhaps the distribution center was in the old Eastern areas and<br>Zauters got spread due to the expulsion? (There are few Zauters in<br>
Poland too, some 14 people in the Bromberg area.)<br><br>If you are searching for the original meaning of the name, perhaps the<br>entry "Zaute" in Grimms' dictionary is useful:<br><<a href="http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/WBB/woerterbuecher/dwb/wbgui?lemmode=lemmasearch&mode=hierarchy&textsize=600&onlist=&word=zaut&lemid=GZ02295&query_start=1&totalhits=0&textword=&locpattern=&textpattern=&lemmapattern=&verspattern=" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/WBB/woerterbuecher/dwb/wbgui?lemmode=lemmasearch&mode=hierarchy&textsize=600&onlist=&word=zaut&lemid=GZ02295&query_start=1&totalhits=0&textword=&locpattern=&textpattern=&lemmapattern=&verspattern=
</a>>.<br>'Zaute' was the duct of a watering can in earlier times. So perhaps<br>Zauter did mean duct-maker?<br></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br>Marcus Buck<br><br>----------<br>
<br>From: </span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Marcus Buck <<a href="mailto:list@marcusbuck.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
list@marcusbuck.org</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology"
2007.08.12 (03) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: Hafoc <<a href="mailto:zauter@adelphia.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
zauter@adelphia.net
</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:zauter@adelphia.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">zauter@adelphia.net</a>>><br></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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><br>> Subject: Help with a Name<br>><br>> If one has the German surname Zauter in one's ancestry and the word<br>> "zaut"<br>> is Limburgish for the English word "salt", is it likely then that the
<br>> surname is of Limburgish origin?<br>><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Or perhaps it is just an odd spelling variant of common southern German<br>Sauter/Suter/Sutter, coming from Latin 'sutor' and meaning shoemaker?
<br></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br>Marcus Buck</span>
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