Ethnonymic surnames are surnames or bynames that originate from ethnonyms . They may originate from nicknames based on the descent of a person from a given ethnic group. Other reasons could be that a person came to a particular place from the area with different ethnic prevalence, from owing a property in such area, or had a considerable contact with persons or area of other ethnicity. Also, they may reflect the fact that a given person matched a particular ethnic stereotype .
18-687: Neamțu is a Romanian ethnonymic surname literally meaning "German person". Notable people with the surname include: Anatol Neamțu [ ro ] (1954–2010), composer, guitarist and arranger from Moldova, member of the band Noroc Constantin Neamțu [ ro ] (1868–1962), Romanian politician, M.P. Cristian Neamțu (1980–2002), Romanian football player Leonida Neamțu [ ro ] (1934–1991), Romanian writer or prose and poetry Mihail Neamțu (born 1978), Romanian politician [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
36-545: A Romanian who admired the bravery of Cossacks. There was an unusually high number of people with surnames/nicknames Sârbul/ Sârbu (Serb) or Sârbescu (descendant of Sârb). It was explained that South Slavs fleeing the Ottoman Empire were indiscriminately called "Serbs" regardless their actual ethnicity. Another surname related to Serbs is Rațiu , which derives from the Hungarian-language term rác (" Rascian ",
54-767: A catch-all term for any Catholic in Greece), Maltezos (Maltese), Roussos (Russian) In Russia , 2% of Don Cossack surnames are ethnonymic, most common being Gruzinov (Грузинов, from "Georgian"), Nemchinov (Немчинов, from "German"), Tatarinov (Татаринов) Grekov (Греков), Kalmykov (Калмыков), Litvinov (Литвинов), Lyakhov (Ляхов). Also Mordvinov ( Mordovian ), Polyakov Turkish language : Türkmen Türkmenoğlu (surname) Crnogorac (Montenegrin). Croatian language : Srb (Serb), Tot (Slovak, from Hungarian Tóth ), Čeh (Czech), Mađar (Hungarian), Bošnjak (Bosniak) Slovak language : Slovák , Nemec, Polák , Rusnák , Chorvát Ernests Blese From Misplaced Pages,
72-541: A considerable number of ethnonymic surnames in historical documents of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (areas of modern Latgalia /Lithuania/Belarus/Ukraine). A significant number of ethnonymic surnames originated from the ethnonym "Lithuanian" in various languages. English surnames, such as Scot / Scott , Welsh , Dane, Dutch, or Irish most probably mean that the ancestors of the surname moved to England at some time, and they have these nicknames accordingly. Brannick
90-447: A historical term for Serbs ). In 2013, 14,719 persons had the surname Sârbu , and 1,333 had the surname Bulgaru . Coman (from Cumans ): 579 persons; Tătaru : 3,350; Calmâș ( Kalmyk ): 664, Calmăș: 1. Nogai (from Nogais ): 455; Nohaiu : 1,774. Also Țiganu (Gypsy), Comănescu (descendant of a person named Cuman). Armenians functioned as a " middleman minority " and tradespeople in many places of Europe, as well as in
108-746: A nickname because Circassians were common in the cavalry of the Ottoman Empire. In 2013 there were 877 persons with the surname. Arnăut ( Albanians ), Ceh (Czech), Frâncu /Frîncu, Grecu (Greek), Leahu (Pole), Neamțu (German), Muscalu (Russian, Muscovite), Ungur , Maghiar (Hungarian) Finnish language : Suomalainen (Finn) Ruotsalainen (Swede) Venäläinen (Russian) Virolainen (Estonian) Greek surnames : Albanian: Alvanos /Albanos, Arnaoutis , Arvanitis ; Bulgarian: Voulgaris , Vlachs ( Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians ): Vlachos ; Serb: Servos; Montenegro: Mavrovouniotis ; Armenis (Armenian), Livanos (Lebanese), Frangos (Frank; basically
126-435: Is anglicized of Gaelic Breathnach (Breithneach, "Briton Also Fleming , Galbraith . There are several dozen names of ethnonymic origin among Hungarian surnames . the constitute about 0.5% of all different Hungarian surnames, however people with these surnames are about 7-8% of the whole population. Three of them, Tóth (Slavic, Slovak, 2.19% of population), Horváth ( Croat, 2.01%) and Németh (German, 0.96%) are among
144-615: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Ethnonymic surname In some research ethnonymic surnames are grouped together with toponymic surnames into "surname by origin", because many ethnonyms may be viewed as demonyms as well; e.g., Litwin is either a person of Lithuanian ethnicity or one from Grand Duchy of Lithuania . Etnnonymic surnames/nicknames may give rise to patronymic surnames : Arnaudov (from Arnaut, i. e. Albanian), Crnogorčević (from Crnogorac , Montenegrin), Horvatović (from Croat), Grković (from Greek). A number of bynames were derived from
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180-468: The surname Neamțu . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neamțu&oldid=1242890246 " Categories : Surnames Romanian-language surnames Ethnonymic surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
198-791: The 10 most frequent surnames in 2007. Compared to other European countries, ethnonymic surnames in Hungary constitute a relagively significant category. Other most frequent ethnonymic surnames are Oláh Romanian, Rácz Serb Török Ottoman, Turkish Magyar Hungarian Orosz Rusyn, Russian Lengyel Polish Székely Sekler Kun Cuman Cseh Bohemian, Czech Szász Saxon Polák Polish Bajor /Beyer Bayer Bavarian Olasz Italian Tatár Tatar Görög Greek Rusznyák Rusyn Unger Hungarian, Böhm Bohemian, Czech, Czigány Gypsy Szlávik Slavic Móré Romanian, Gypsy Uhrin Hungarian. Some Hungarian ethnonymic names may have originated from nicknames associated with
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#1732851233898216-717: The Ottoman Empire. In particular, in Romanian records of the 18th century there were many Armenians without surname and identified by the ethnicity, e.g., "David, arman, cafegiu (David, Armenian, coffee shop owner)". Eventually there references turned into the Romanian surname Arman/Armanu. In 2013 Romania the surnames Arman had 442 persons, Armanu 367 persons, and more contemporary form Armeanu from armean , Armenian, had 36 persons. Russians/Rusyns/Ruthenians: Rusu : 23,589; Russu : 7,250; Rus : 86, Russo : 50; Ruso : 3. Other older and rarer surnames include Rusan, Rusoi, Rusuleț. Maria Cosniceanu notes that in documents of 14th-16th centuries
234-503: The appellation "Rus" sometimes was not an ethnonym but from an archaic adjective meaning a darker shade of blond hair (cf. Russian русый ). The nickname Turcul meant not only a person of Turkish ethnicity, but also to a person who had traits stereotypically attributed to Turks: stubborn, arrogant, disregardful, etc. Also 'turcul' was synonymous to " pagan ". Turcu : 1,023; Turculeț : 1,156. Cerchez ( Circassian ) appeared in Romania as
252-536: The ethnonyms, usually from ethnic minorities, e.g., from "Liv"/" Livonian ": Lībietis , Libete, Libes, Lybete, Libeth.... Kursis Curonians , Leitis ( Leičiai ), Prūsis ( Prussians ). Laimute Balode and Laura Grīviņa noted that during the process of Latvianization many surnames relating to ethnonyms were replaced, despite their Lithuanian etymology, due to their perceived negative connotations. These include Krievs ‘Russian’, Žīdiņš < žīds ‘Jew’, Čigāns ‘Roma person’, Svede ‘Swede’. Pusvācietis ‘Half-German’ has
270-903: The 💕 Look for Ernests Blese on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Ernests Blese in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use
288-410: The origins of Romanian ethnonymic surnames in four categories: (1) ethnic affiliation, either immediate or distant; (2) place of origin; (3) ethnic stereotypes; (4) sympathies towards a particular ethnicity. He gave an example of the last category: the nickname/surname Cazacul/ Cazacu , " Cossack " (7,543 persons with the surname in 2013), may refer to the ethnicity of the person, but may also be given to
306-891: The pejorative meaning of ‘a Latvian pretending to be German’. Balode and Irvina remarked that the 1929 book by Latvian linguist Ernests Blese [ lv ] about the ancient surnames of the 16th century notes that the Latvian word vācietis ("German") was not recorded as a surname, because Germans did not mix with Latvians. However in modern times the Latvian surname Vācietis does exist. Ethnonymic surnames constitute about 1.2% in Lithuania . Čigonas (Gypsy), Žydas, Vokietis/Vokietys (German), Turkas, Gudas (Belarusian), Lenkas (Pole), Latvis, Maskolius ( Muscovite ), Rusas, Paliokas (Pole) Names of ancient Baltic tribes also used as surnames: Aistis ( lt:Aisčiai Aesti ), Jotvingas ( Yatvingians ), Notangas ( Natangians ). Yulia Gurskaya recorded
324-576: The secondary meaning of the term: görög (= Greek, but also merchant), oláh (Romanian, Vlach , also shepherd), orosz (Russian, but also belonging to Eastern Orthodox Church ), tatár also used to mean " pagan ", bat later acquired the meaning of a violent person. The ethnicity gave rise to surnames in various European cultures: Mađar /Maďar/ Madžar Magyar Ungar Ungaro Ungaretti Unger Ungerman , Ungermann [ de ] Ungur Ungureanu Vengerov Romanian philologist Ioan Bilețchi-Albescu specifically dealt with this subject. He classified
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