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Re: Last names ending in Stedt
by Marc (picard)
7/2/2009, 6:42 PM
in reply to a message by Karyn
Grufstedt is Swedish and Knackstedt is German but -stedt has a completely different origin in the two names. The first one is a cognate of English stead 'place' while Knackstedt is an alteration of Knacksterdt which contains Low German stert 'tail'.
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