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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Jorge Potter</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:jorgepot@gmail.com">jorgepot@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Names" 2008.10.10 (07) [E]</span><br>
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</span>Ben Bloomgren</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Lowlands-L List <<a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Hello all,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I've been wondering lately
about color surnames: Brown, Red, Rojas, Blue, White, Blac ETC. Where
does this phenomenon come from?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Thanks and sorry for the
recent lurking,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Ben</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Dear Ben Bloomgren, Ron and fellow
Lowlanders,</p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Green(e) is a common color surname
in English. Toponymic. A final "e" may represent an OE dative. My
first year in college I happened into a small class with a Green, a Black, a
Brown and a White. Miss Green was the cutest.</p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Some Whites descended from
the very fair. Others had been "wight", but hardly the common Eng <i>guy,
tipo, Kerl</i>, but from a Norse word meaning valiant.</p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Brown is the commonest color
surname. It and Black (or Blake) refer to ancestors' skin or hair.</p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">The only Blues I ever heard of were
Chicago African-Americans and the only one I knew personally needed to sing the
blues, but didn't know how.</p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="" lang="ES">Rojas del topónimo Rojas, nombre de una población en la Provincia de
Burgos. Frecuente en Sevilla, Córdoba y Málaga. Fernando Rojas escribió <i>La
Celestina</i>.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="" lang="ES"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Jorge Potter</p>
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