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Subject: Re: What is Capalski?
Author: Dunny   (guest, 213.93.128.44)
Date: December 11, 2002 at 11:24:54 AM
Reply to: Re: What is Capalski? by rebecca
"ski" is a slavic suffix that belongs / pertains to a first name, in this case, that name would be "Capal". It could be a form of Koppel, a Yiddish nickname for Jacob. If that's so (I'm just making assumptions), it would mean "of Jacob".

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