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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Names<br><br>Diederik, you wrote:<br><br></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
From: Diederik Masure <span><<a href="mailto:didimasure@hotmail.com" target="_blank">didimasure@hotmail.com</a>></span><br>Subject: Names<br><br>Hey Lowlanders, <br>
I have another mistery for ye! <br>
I just got this question from a Romanian friend of mine, but it goes
beyond my knowledge to answer it myself. Any of you any clues? <br>
<br>
"Well... I want to find out any possible origin or appropriate meaning
for the surname "Möwis". It's a Germanic surname, I mean it comes from
Germany, but it's very very uncommon in Germany nowadays... I found
only one German word which is close to the name, which is "möwe",
meaning gull or seagull... The name, as far as I could trace it, comes
from Mecklenburg... I don't know deeper than that... But Mecklenburg
was part of Denmark for a while...<br>Maybe
there is any Norwegian word, or old Norwegian, who may sound closely to
that? Someone told me a few days ago that, in his opinion, the name
Möwis may have a Scandinavian resonance... The name as I wrote it is in
it's German form, so maybe in the past it had other form, I mean it may
have been written in some other way... (for example, nowadays in
Romanian it became Mevis)" <br>
<br>
Thanks guys! <br>
Diederik, Bergen (Norway)<br></div>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>I assume that </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Möwis is related to Möwes, Mewis, Mewes, Mews, etc.</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;">Apparently these are Low Saxon ("Low German") family names and first names and are derived from the first name Bartholomäus (Bartholomew), a Graecisized form (Βαρθολομαίος <i>Bartholomaíos</i>, <i>Vartholomaíos</i>) of the Judeo-Aramaic patronymic </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">bar Thôlmai</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> (בר תלמי) "son of Tôlmai".</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;">The Romanian equivalent is </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Bartolomeu</i><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;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seattle, USA</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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