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Re: Cavka & Fioretti
You'll find the origin of Fioretti at http://www.ancestry.com/facts/fioretti-family-history.ashx. Čavka is Serbo-Croatian and probably comes from a place so named in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Čavka is a bird name (after which the place was named), it's daw or jackdaw in English.
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