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in reply to a message by Carol Divish
I'd say that it's a Slavic name. I've heard the name Divis in Czech Rep. (the ending pronounced '-ish', I just don't have Czech diacrits here). Besides, Czech Rep. used to belong to Austria.
There's a similar surname in Poland: Dziwisz (pronounced "jeevish", well, something like that). My etymological dictionary says that it's a medieval form of a Greek name Dionysios used in Poland and Czech. I don't know if that's right (the dictionary was written in 1927), but I'd say that those names are related.
There's a similar surname in Poland: Dziwisz (pronounced "jeevish", well, something like that). My etymological dictionary says that it's a medieval form of a Greek name Dionysios used in Poland and Czech. I don't know if that's right (the dictionary was written in 1927), but I'd say that those names are related.
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