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[Surname] Re: Meaning of the Russian surname "Poplawski"
Correction, I'm now pretty sure the name is Polish, with the "-ski" meaning "son of", if the suffix "-lawski" doesn't mean something entirely different.
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I think it may be based on the Serbo-Croatian or Slowenian word for flood: 'Poplava' (this is also a surname).
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