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Help[Surname] Vollmer
I would like to know the origins/meanings of these surnames,
Vollmer(German)
Ramm(German)
Tantz (Tanz means 'to dance')
Nolde
Schiewe
Leu
Foch (can't find this one anywhere!)
Englevich
Liggio
i have a vague idea what Vollmer means, something like 'famous persons' from Volk- persons & Meri (Old German?)- famous, but I'm not sure.
Vollmer(German)
Ramm(German)
Tantz (Tanz means 'to dance')
Nolde
Schiewe
Leu
Foch (can't find this one anywhere!)
Englevich
Liggio
i have a vague idea what Vollmer means, something like 'famous persons' from Volk- persons & Meri (Old German?)- famous, but I'm not sure.
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Foch is French (Gascony); it is the Gascon spelling of the Occitan pronunciation of the place-name Foix, a Pyrenean county. Occitan was the old language of Pyrenean France, closely related to Catalan.
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Liggio is an Italian name it comes from a nickname that means "not serious, a person that you can't trust. It is a variant of Leggieri. Typical of Southern Italy.
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VOLLMER:
You are right: One possible derivation is from VOLKMAR ("folk / people" + "famous", but I would be carefull adding those meaning to "famous persons")
But there is a second possibility: It can mean the same as Meyer/Mayer/Meier/Maier:
http://surnames.behindthename.com/php/search.php?terms=meyer&type=n&operator=or
"voll" means "full" and used to tell a "full meyer" from a "half mayer" (there is the German surname HALBMAIER!) who has or is in charge of only half a farm.
RAMM:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/SurnamePage.aspx?sourcecode=13304&html=b&fn=&ln=ramm&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
TANTZ:
This can, as you say, originally refer to someone who loved dancing. But there is also a place-name Tantz. There was a Herman Tantz in the 14th cent.
NOLDE:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/SurnamePage.aspx?sourcecode=13304&html=b&fn=&ln=nolde&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
SCHIEWE:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/SurnamePage.aspx?sourcecode=13304&html=b&fn=&ln=schiewe&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
LEU:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/SurnamePage.aspx?sourcecode=13304&html=b&fn=&ln=leu&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
FOCH:
I don't know about FOCH, all I found was FOCK, which is from names like VOLKMAR
ENGLEVICH:
Never heard of, I can't find anything on this name. Google gives two hits and asks: Did you mean "English"? The name looks as if it hade undergone some change or suffered damage of some kind. "Angel" may be the first part, but rather "angle" like in "Anglo-Saxons". "Vich" reminds me of "weich" (soft) in German and also of the personal name element WIG (like in Ludwig). But this just guessing.
LIGGIO:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/SurnamePage.aspx?sourcecode=13304&html=b&fn=&ln=liggio&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
You are right: One possible derivation is from VOLKMAR ("folk / people" + "famous", but I would be carefull adding those meaning to "famous persons")
But there is a second possibility: It can mean the same as Meyer/Mayer/Meier/Maier:
http://surnames.behindthename.com/php/search.php?terms=meyer&type=n&operator=or
"voll" means "full" and used to tell a "full meyer" from a "half mayer" (there is the German surname HALBMAIER!) who has or is in charge of only half a farm.
RAMM:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/SurnamePage.aspx?sourcecode=13304&html=b&fn=&ln=ramm&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
TANTZ:
This can, as you say, originally refer to someone who loved dancing. But there is also a place-name Tantz. There was a Herman Tantz in the 14th cent.
NOLDE:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/SurnamePage.aspx?sourcecode=13304&html=b&fn=&ln=nolde&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
SCHIEWE:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/SurnamePage.aspx?sourcecode=13304&html=b&fn=&ln=schiewe&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
LEU:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/SurnamePage.aspx?sourcecode=13304&html=b&fn=&ln=leu&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
FOCH:
I don't know about FOCH, all I found was FOCK, which is from names like VOLKMAR
ENGLEVICH:
Never heard of, I can't find anything on this name. Google gives two hits and asks: Did you mean "English"? The name looks as if it hade undergone some change or suffered damage of some kind. "Angel" may be the first part, but rather "angle" like in "Anglo-Saxons". "Vich" reminds me of "weich" (soft) in German and also of the personal name element WIG (like in Ludwig). But this just guessing.
LIGGIO:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/SurnamePage.aspx?sourcecode=13304&html=b&fn=&ln=liggio&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
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