My name means Supplanter living by the sign of the animal that is my surname. That's ok, but if you take my name back to Irish then my surname gains an O' and changes the vowel at the end, so in fact means that I'm a descendant of a 9th century Irish king
jph27 wrote:
My name means Supplanter living by the sign of the animal that is my surname. That's ok, but if you take my name back to Irish then my surname gains an O' and changes the vowel at the end, so in fact means that I'm a descendant of a 9th century Irish king
Is this a gender specified O or would it be the same for a Girl? There is a difference! Cause If its not a gender specified O, it doesnt really mean descendant anymore
Jesleyh wrote:
Sen? Does that mean son in English?
Can't find another explaination for every name ending on sen otherwise
It is the equivalent to "-son names", but "sen" doesn't actually mean "son".
To some extent it does, though the spelling is different (at least today).
Originally the surname was directly related to the father, so that if Michael got a son named Peter he would be named Peter Michaelsen, his son would then be called Petersen etc...
At least in Denmark I don't think you have to go much further back than three generations to find this practice some places in the country.
My own last name translates to GreenCastle, but I'm not exactly sure where it originates from. Only that there is two different families carrying the name in Denmark
I think a "naming law" in Norway was introduced around 1910-1920, a law which stated that surnames should be passed from one generation to the next.
I have an ancestor from about 1750 who's name today literaly means "automatic longline fishing"...
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I'm planning to travel around Europe at the end of the year
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