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[Surname] Mientkiewicz
There was this baseball player with the surname "Mientkiewicz." Though he was not a GREAT player, he was fairly well known, in part due to his difficult-to-pronounce surname.I've been wondering this for a while: What does the surname "Mientkiewicz" actually mean?
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Mientkiewicz is derived from Polish miętki 'soft, tender'.
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Thanks!
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