Mine's Welsh!
2006-12-06 17:25:11 · 20 answers · asked by -♦One-♦-Love♦- 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Arabic
2006-12-06 17:32:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
maiden name is a common last name....brown, although I am told it is scottish in origin with the idea that the clan lost everything because they supported the wrong Mary Queen during the Rose war. I could care less.
Then I married into a Yugoslavian name that got shortened because of it's crazy length. no big deal to me either, since Yugoslavia is no longer about. I have no idea which part of old Yugo it came from, but it is quite unique even for being shortened.
2006-12-07 01:57:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My surname "Lee" according to the English spelling, "Lie" to the Indonesian and Dutch spelling, "Li" according to Pinyin Mandarin spelling, and in Chinese character is like this æ, describe as
"Mukzi li" . "Muk" means a "tree" and "zi" stands for "child". In China, and even in the world, now , this surname, "Lee" or "Li" is the number one surname.
In Chinese the name means "plum". Plum is the most popular fruit in China, and usually you can see chidren gathering under those trees.
The first person according to Chinese legend who carried the surname "Li" was a judge, who was very straight and honest, but he was not liked by the king who ruled at that time. So he was sentenced to death and his widow and son escaped. They survived by eating "li" the plums in the jungle. In order to hide their identity, they changed their name from a different "Li" to the presnet "Mukzi Li". The descendants of that widow are now comprising the biggest bearer fo that surname in China., Taiwan, Korea and other Chinese people who live overseas.
2006-12-07 02:41:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My surname is an Irish name. However, my ancestors came over to Australia from Ireland on boat and when they got off and had to report their name, they couldn't spell their own name so the person recording names had to have a guess at the spelling - and they got it wrong. So there is no official coat of arms for my name!
2006-12-07 01:35:43 · answer #4 · answered by Snoopy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None of them. It was originally Russian, but when my grandfather and his parents moved to America, he got teased a lot at school for having a "commie" name, so they changed it to a shorter name, one which is fairly common here in America, mostly among African Americans it seems.
A similar thing happened on my mom's side of the family, where the name was shortened to avoid discrimination from having a Polish surname.
2006-12-07 01:31:03 · answer #5 · answered by jellybeanchick 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Typical surname from Slavic origin.
2006-12-07 04:34:51 · answer #6 · answered by sunflower 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mine is Japanese, although it sounds like it originated in the Middle East and it means a lot of different things in other countries...
2006-12-07 01:46:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tudor, Croatian.
2006-12-07 01:34:44 · answer #8 · answered by Tudor_ 22 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Turkish.
2006-12-07 02:29:51 · answer #9 · answered by Earthling 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English and Irish
2006-12-07 02:10:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋