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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="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Diederik Masure</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:didimasure@hotmail.com">didimasure@hotmail.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="gI">Names<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hey Lowlanders, </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
I have another mistery for ye! </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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? </span><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;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
"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...</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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)" </span><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;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Thanks guys! </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Diederik, Bergen (Norway)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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