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Subject: Re: Jason Varitek
Author: Menke   (guest, 84.80.142.26)
Date: October 7, 2004 at 2:15:48 AM
Reply to: Jason Varitek by Sean Foglai
http://www.polishroots.org/surnames/surnames_endings.htm

well, the above link is about suffices in Polish names, but it also dealt with the suffix -ek and in Poland this means 'little' mostly, sometimes also used 'son of...', like the English junior is also meant to refer to a son of the person with senior behind his name. So, Janek means 'little John, son of John'. But i'm not sure if Varit is a firstname. I also tried Jelin(ek) and Vachous(ek), they're soccer players that i know of and they don't seem to be outstanding Czech-Slovak firstnames, so maybe they mean something else, like 'little house' or 'little town', just to name something. I'll get back to you about that.

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