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I have to ask TigerTjäder... how come you say your first language is Portugese, others English and Spanish, but you have a user name which can only be interpreted in Swedish (as far as I can see)?
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Truncated wrote:
I have to ask TigerTjäder... how come you say your first language is Portugese, others English and Spanish, but you have a user name which can only be interpreted in Swedish (as far as I can see)?
Well, I'm Brazilian, I write and read English pretty well, have a little understanding of Spanish, and Tjäder is my surname, of Swedish origin. And my middle name is Exterckötter, of German origin. And, no, my first name is not Tiger, it's Rodrigo.
Excuse me for saying it, but that has to be the weirdest name I've ever seen. :) Do you know what a Tjäder is in Swedish, even though you don't speak it?
Hint: bottom right
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Truncated wrote:
Excuse me for saying it, but that has to be the weirdest name I've ever seen. :) Do you know what a Tjäder is in Swedish, even though you don't speak it?
Hint: bottom right
Yeah, my name is very weird, even more in Portuguese, no one can pronounce it in the right way without proper instructions :p and some persons can't pronounce it even with the proper instructions =p.
And yes, I already knew what it means. :) (Though I don't know what Exterckötter means, and it may be spelled wrong, as my uncle's name is spelled Exterkotter, and some other persons in the family have Exterchotter and other things like that, so it probably got corrupted somewere in time... but I think the right way is Exterkotter, because I've heard that it's a fusion of the families Exter and Kotter, and I've found some info on those.)
And yes, I already knew what it means. :) (Though I don't know what Exterckötter means, and it may be spelled wrong, as my uncle's name is spelled Exterkotter, and some other persons in the family have Exterchotter and other things like that, so it probably got corrupted somewere in time... but I think the right way is Exterkotter, because I've heard that it's a fusion of the families Exter and Kotter, and I've found some info on those.)
None of these (Exterckötter, Exterkotter, Exterchotter) give even so much as a single hit when you search for German websites mentioning them on Google. o.o I'm not aware of "Exter" or "Kotter" as surnames, either (although that of course doesn't mean they don't exist).
Are you sure it's German?
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schneelocke wrote:
TigerTjäder wrote:
And yes, I already knew what it means. :) (Though I don't know what Exterckötter means, and it may be spelled wrong, as my uncle's name is spelled Exterkotter, and some other persons in the family have Exterchotter and other things like that, so it probably got corrupted somewere in time... but I think the right way is Exterkotter, because I've heard that it's a fusion of the families Exter and Kotter, and I've found some info on those.)
None of these (Exterckötter, Exterkotter, Exterchotter) give even so much as a single hit when you search for German websites mentioning them on Google. o.o I'm not aware of "Exter" or "Kotter" as surnames, either (although that of course doesn't mean they don't exist).
Are you sure it's German?
Yes I am, my greatgrandfather or greatgreatgrandfather or something like that came from Germany a lot of years ago, and on my grandfather's house there's two papers from an surname researching foundation about the family Exter and the family Kotter, with the family coat of arms, a bit of the family history, etc.
Must be some rare names in Germany. Because I life in Germany and was born here. But I never hear from these names or see them anywhere. And they don't sound german.
But I can't know all names which exist in Germany.
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Must be some rare names in Germany. Because I life in Germany and was born here. But I never hear from these names or see them anywhere. And they don't sound german.
But I can't know all names which exist in Germany.
"Exter" could be the German version of the Russian surname "Экстер", I think. "Kotter" or "Kötter" seem to be German surnames after all - maybe related to these?
Interesting, but they unfortunately don't tell you where the surnames actually come from (both in terms of meaning and geographical origin), just where people with those surnames immigrating into the USA lived before doing that. :)
"Exter" could be the German version of the Russian surname "Экстер", I think.
Eh? Экстер can't originate from Russian, it doesn't even sound alike. Most of the russian surnames end with -ов/-ова (-ov/-ova), -ев/-ева (-ev/-eva) or -ин/-ина (-in/-ina), and a significant part of them originate from one of the common russian first names (Ivan -> Ivanov). I.e. my surname is Сергеев, transliterated as "Sergeev" or, which is more accurate, "Sergeyev"; it originates from the first name Сергей (Sergey). Sometimes you can see strange russian surnames which originate from certain russian words, but that's pretty uncommon. The pattern descripted above is right in about 95% of cases.
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"Exter" could be the German version of the Russian surname "Экстер", I think.
Eh? Экстер can't originate from Russian, it doesn't even sound alike. Most of the russian surnames end with -ов/-ова (-ov/-ova), -ев/-ева (-ev/-eva) or -ин/-ина (-in/-ina), and a significant part of them originate from one of the common russian first names (Ivan -> Ivanov). I.e. my surname is Сергеев, transliterated as "Sergeev" or, which is more accurate, "Sergeyev"; it originates from the first name Сергей (Sergey). Sometimes you can see strange russian surnames which originate from certain russian words, but that's pretty uncommon. The pattern descripted above is right in about 95% of cases.
Mmm. May be, too - I'm not an expert on Russian names. I just happened to remember that there was a Russian painter of that name (Александра Экстер / Alexandra Exter). ^_~
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schneelocke wrote:
moozooh wrote:
schneelocke wrote:
"Exter" could be the German version of the Russian surname "Экстер", I think.
Eh? Экстер can't originate from Russian, it doesn't even sound alike. Most of the russian surnames end with -ов/-ова (-ov/-ova), -ев/-ева (-ev/-eva) or -ин/-ина (-in/-ina), and a significant part of them originate from one of the common russian first names (Ivan -> Ivanov). I.e. my surname is Сергеев, transliterated as "Sergeev" or, which is more accurate, "Sergeyev"; it originates from the first name Сергей (Sergey). Sometimes you can see strange russian surnames which originate from certain russian words, but that's pretty uncommon. The pattern descripted above is right in about 95% of cases.
Mmm. May be, too - I'm not an expert on Russian names. I just happened to remember that there was a Russian painter of that name (Александра Экстер / Alexandra Exter). ^_~
Couldn't be that painter a russian with german ancestry?
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Couldn't be that painter a russian with german ancestry?
Yes, of course - although "ancestry" is a relatively elastic term - if somebody's family is originally from $COUNTRY, what keeps you from digging even deeper until you find out that at some point, they immigrated from $OTHER_COUNTRY? And so on, ad infinitum (almost)...
In a related question, what makes a certain name a "German" name or a "Russian" name or anything like that?
Ok, I'm german and swedish descendant. Can anyone guess my hair's color?
>In a related question, what makes a certain name a "German" name or a "Russian" name or anything like that?
As opposed to being an imported name? Fitting into the language's morphology as moozooh said is probably a good start. If the meaning of the name is unintelligible to a native speaker of that language, that's also a good pointer. (But this requirement doesn't fit well with first (personal) names and I can't really say why.)
Also, we are horribly off-topic and it's my fault. Sorry.
