i thought it was kinda like black farmer i thought it was kinda like black farmerFinally, an explanation of the highly implausible TV show, “Vanilla Ice Goes Amish.”
It's like a hyphenated surname.
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Dark-haired ploughman.
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Interesting article in a way but in another sense, who cares? I guess that some leftist think that the sins of past generations are passed to the children and grandchildren or that appears to be what the term “White Privilege means but I don’t.
My last name technically means “Son of a Friar” which is odd in that friars are supposed to be celibate. Maybe that is an unconscious psychological reason that I’m not a Catholic but somehow I don’t think so.
Family names are oddly done in the West in that very few Smith’s. Baker’s, Wheelwright’s, or Patterson’s, Johnson’s and and Miller’s actually are those things or members of that occupation though I guess most Walker’s do walk. I think this comes from the late Roman Empire which had instituted sort of a cast system or perhaps the Doomsday Book in England though that is speculation.
In China the Family names delineate a clan or family rather than an occupation. There were fewer clans than occupations so there are very family names, especially when you realize that Chan, Chen, Chin, Ching and Chang can all be the same word in Chinese just pronounced differently as are Wong, Wang, Won and Pan, Ping, Poon.
Anyway, it was an interesting read.
An appropriate moniker for a politician, eh?
the Egg is the plow; the Egger the plowman.
Schwartz not to the person, but to the plow.
SchwartzenEgg er
a plowman who uses a black plow
a forged plow
IMHO
It means ‘black plowman.’
Arnold “From the Black forest” seems to make sense as far as a european surname goes.
I remember that particular interview and Arnold told Dave it meant “black plowman” except it sounded something like “b’lock p’lau-mahn.” To which Dave said, “Does Maria’s family know this?”
My ancestral name is Honegger. We’ve always believed it means high place or high peak. The name traces back to the Zurich region in the early 1500s.
Are his people from Schwarzenegg? That would make him a Schwarzenegger.
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