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=========================================================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:Dutchmatters@comcast.net">Dutchmatters@comcast.net</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Etymology" 2008.02.29 (04) [E]<br></span><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Hi Mike, Re your request for info on
origin of last names: </span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Bungenberg apparently is a Frisian name
after the hillock on which the bells were mounted that announced danger from a
flood. </span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Note also that the word "berg" is highly exaggerated.
The following anecdote might explain this better:</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">My children and I were in the </span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Netherlands</span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;"> to visit "Oma" who then lived
in Haaksbergen near </span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Hengelo</span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">. The children had been promised an outing to a famous pancake
house and we were driving there. Alex was sitting on my mothers lap. She
pointed to a hill and said "Kijk Alex, daar is de Tankenberg". Alex turned
around and looked at her with those clear blue eyes of a five year old junior
scientist and said "Oma, dat </span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">kan</span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;"> niet, </span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Holland</span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;"> gaat niet naar boven, het gaat alleen maar naar beneden!" Aah the
truth!</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Jacqueline</span></font></p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Mike Morgan</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:mwmosaka@gmail.com">mwmosaka@gmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Etymology" 2008.02.29 (04) [E]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gmail_quote">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><div><font size="2">Lost in Puerto Rico (aka <span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Jorge) wrote:</span></font></div><div><font size="2"> </font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"></span></font>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="2">Since
High German is the only language I have ever studied formally, I always
thought that your surname was "Rooster". </font></p></blockquote></div><div><font size="2"><br>Many,
many years ago when I was teaching Russian at Duke University, I sat in
on (audited) a Yiddish class (as an student of Russia and Eastern
Europe, I had long been interested in the language and culture, but had
never had the opportunity to study formally). The class was small: two
of us .. not counting the teacher, plus a woman from Israel (whose
mother was a Yiddish native speaker, but who herself spoke very little
of the <i>Mame loshn</i>). Some months into the class the subject came
up, and she was surprised, having assumed since my name was Morgan that
I was ... Jewish? (I don't know how common the common noun <i>morgn</i> "morning" is as a Jewish surname, but ... )<br>
</font></div></div><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><br>As for the query about what
everyone on the List's name means, I can only say that, although Morgan
is the most common Welsh surname (Jones has the honor of being the most
common surname in Wales, but it is not Welsh so that is a different
matter!), there is still some debate. It has on occasion been
etymologized as something like</font><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"> "sea-born" (<i>mor</i> = sea and *<i>gan</i> < <i>geni</i>
= to be born), hence my somewhat flowery Japanese (mis)translation.
Almost certainly, though, it does not (one would expect the initial <i>g</i> of the second element of such a compound to mutate -- and in the case of an initial <i>g</i>, disappear), </font><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and proposals that it possibly derives from Welsh </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">mor</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> "sea" (< IE *mori) and </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">cant</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
"circle" (modern Weslh "tire / tyre" < IE *kan-t(h)-o- "corner, a
bending") fit better with the morphophonology of the language. B</span><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2">ut I think it is more likely from the adverbial <i>mor</i> "so" plus an adjectival root <i>*cant</i> > Modern Welsh <i>cann</i> "bright" < IE <i>*(s)kand-</i>, so I am "So bright!" (alas, NOT in the sense of !so intelligent", but in the sense of "so white, so shiny")<br>
<br>[My copy of <i>Geriadur y Prifysgol Cymru</i> (nor my copy of the <i>OED</i>!) did not find its way into my luggage when I came to Bombay.</font><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Once I settle into the cooler foothills of the Himalayas and build a
big enough house perhaps ... Anyway, fortunately and FYI, there is an
online (albeit "concise" that is to say, partial) version available at:
</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://www.aber.ac.uk/geiriadur/gpc_pdfs.htm#DANGOSEIRIAU" target="_blank">http://www.aber.ac.uk/geiriadur/gpc_pdfs.htm#DANGOSEIRIAU</a><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
And it is also downloadable. At downloaidng it as we speak, and, at my
current connection speed, I should have it all ... in about 2 months!]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><br>As
for Michael (a name which I use in my signature but which NO-one except
my mother calls me, and that ONLY when she is mad!), I WAS born the day
before the Feast of Saint Michael, but I think that is just a
coincidence (as neither parent is Catholic). My name WAS going to be
David (Dafydd Morgan would have been a VERY Welsh name indeed!), until
an aunt stole it and gave it to a cousin who was born 4 months prior to
me. ... Oh well, I have kind of gotten used to Mike, so I guess I will
keep it!<br>
<br>Found in Bombay<div class="Ih2E3d"><font size="2"><div class="Ih2E3d">MWM || マイク || Мика || माईक<br></div></font><div><div><span id="q_118670a06fec0fea_5" class="WQ9l9c">- Hide quoted text -</span></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
<br>================<br><br>Dr Michael W Morgan<br>Managing Director<br>
Ishara Foundation<br>Mumbai (Bombay), India<br><br>++++++++++++++++<br><br>माईकल मोर्गन (पी.एच.डी.)<br>मेनेजिंग डॉयरेक्टर<br>ईशारा फॉउंडेशन (मुंबई )<br><br>++++++++++++++++<br><br>茂流岸マイク(言語学博士)<br>イシャラ基金の専務理事・事務局長<br>ムンバイ(ボンベイ)、インド</div>
</div></div></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(200, 137, 0);">Sandy Fleming</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org">sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Etymology" 2008.02.29 (04) [E]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">> From: Jorge Potter <<a href="mailto:jorgepot@gmail.com">jorgepot@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.02.22 (04) [E]<br>
><br>
</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">> Basil Cottle traces Potter to Old English and considers it an<br>
> occupational name, though it's well known that many Smiths, Potters,<br>
> etc., merely lived near a pottery or smithy, rather than working at it<br>
> themselves. OED traces the first use of the word potter to 1100.<br>
> Interestingly, Le Petit Robert traces the first use of potier to 1120,<br>
> and our family always said we went back to the Normans for no reason<br>
> known to me.<br>
<br>
</div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">One thing that might be news to you is that the name Potter is</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
well-known in the Deaf community in England, particularly in the London</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
area. In fact I know one Potter family here in Somerset and the mother,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
father and all three children are deaf.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> I could go on forever, imagining what every name means…but, is it<br>
> possible that any of you would be moved to explain online what your<br>
> names really mean?<br>
<br>
</div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I suppose 'Fleming' is a bit too obvious to need explanation on this</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
list!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><br>
Sandy Fleming<br>
<a href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a><br>
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