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in reply to a message by Andy ;—)
I wonder if the german surname Droege or Droge (o with umlaut) could come from the old german Drogo.
Interesting question don't you think?
Interesting question don't you think?
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There seem to be different explanations to the German surname Dröge (Droege):
North German (Dröge): from Middle Low German droge ‘dry’, probably applied as a topographic name for someone who lived in an area of dry ground.
(http://www.ancestry.com/search/SurnamePage.aspx?sourcecode=13304&html=b&fn=&ln=droege&submit.x=0&submit.y=0)
My book on German surnames (Rosa und Volker Kohlheim, Familiennamen, Mannheim 2000) says, it's from a byname "dürr" (meagre).
So "dry" would be the original meaningin both cases, and this seems to be the root of the word "drug" as well.
But once more my question: Where did you find, that DROGO was an old Germanic name? I've never come across it.
North German (Dröge): from Middle Low German droge ‘dry’, probably applied as a topographic name for someone who lived in an area of dry ground.
(http://www.ancestry.com/search/SurnamePage.aspx?sourcecode=13304&html=b&fn=&ln=droege&submit.x=0&submit.y=0)
My book on German surnames (Rosa und Volker Kohlheim, Familiennamen, Mannheim 2000) says, it's from a byname "dürr" (meagre).
So "dry" would be the original meaningin both cases, and this seems to be the root of the word "drug" as well.
But once more my question: Where did you find, that DROGO was an old Germanic name? I've never come across it.
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