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Help[Surname] Re: Dackis
in reply to a message by Jim Young
I think I got smart on this one ...searched both Greek and Latin sites and books and came up with this ...
Of course, it's a bit of a guess (as most of these are ...) but I looked for the first syllable ...no luck in Greek on websites, but I found in Latin "DICARE, to tell, DICERE, to say: DIC" in a Latin/Greek etymology book which lead me to look up on the web "to tell" in Greek because I couldn't find anything in Greek that closely resembled the first syllable “dik” ...
But looking up the Greek for the English "to tell" lead me to ...diigoumai ...not close you may think, but when you consider there are no "c's" in Greek and that "g's" sound often like "k's", I think we have our culprit ...
Anyway, sorry to go through the extent of this ...just that it felt good to get some answer (though I'm not positive, but wanted to share the experience) …
So ultimately, the name likely means something like “the descendant of the storyteller” or something similar …a good name! ...that is, of course, that I am right!!
Of course, it's a bit of a guess (as most of these are ...) but I looked for the first syllable ...no luck in Greek on websites, but I found in Latin "DICARE, to tell, DICERE, to say: DIC" in a Latin/Greek etymology book which lead me to look up on the web "to tell" in Greek because I couldn't find anything in Greek that closely resembled the first syllable “dik” ...
But looking up the Greek for the English "to tell" lead me to ...diigoumai ...not close you may think, but when you consider there are no "c's" in Greek and that "g's" sound often like "k's", I think we have our culprit ...
Anyway, sorry to go through the extent of this ...just that it felt good to get some answer (though I'm not positive, but wanted to share the experience) …
So ultimately, the name likely means something like “the descendant of the storyteller” or something similar …a good name! ...that is, of course, that I am right!!
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Just wanted to mention that why I looked up Latin names as well as Greek names is because so many of them are derived from Greek and that the languages, though very different, share many of the same roots ...
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There is, or was, a Greek male given name, Didakos, which was based on the word for teach, the source of English words such as didactic. However, as this surname is thought to have been shortened, I'm sticking to my last idea (till that gets shot down).
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