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2007-02-27 03:07:17 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Languages

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I guess it's from Finland (Suomi) and that in origin it was the longer name Kucsulainen, then shortned as Kucsulain.
Ending -nen (or -lainen/läinen) has originally meant a person who lives in a certain kind of place. For example:

Mäki = hill; Mäkinen = someone who lives on a hill.
Pelto = field; Peltonen = someone who lives by a field.

The first part before -nen can also be the name of a farm or a village or a province or even a country. For example:

Karjala = Carelia, a province in eastern Finland; Karjalainen = one who lives in Carelia.
Suomalainen (Finnish), Ruotsalainen (Swedish), Venäläinen (Russian) and Virolainen (Estonian) are very common surnames in Finland.

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2007-02-27 07:16:44 · answer #1 · answered by martox45 7 · 2 0

At a guess, Turkish.

2007-02-27 03:19:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

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