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Re: Garcia Etymology and Origin

by Marc (picard)

8/17/2009, 1:58 PM

The consensus seems to be that gars/garçon is derived from southern Germanic *wrakjo (OHG reccheo, OE wrecca—both mean ‘exile, fugitive’: ModG Recke ‘warrior,’ ModE wretch). You can check a number of sources for this etymology at http://tr.im/wz3o.

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