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in reply to a message by Bela Braga
Mori is an Italian surname and a Japanese surname. Are the two related? Of course not.
Gordon is a Scottish surname and an Eastern European Jewish surname. Are the names connected? No, pure coincidence.
You can find similar sounding names in different languages and ethnicities. So what?
My surname, Young, is not an alternative spelling of the Chinese Yung, it's from the English word 'young', no need to speculate any further.
Kenneth is an English version of the Gaelic Coinneach, which does mean 'fair'. The Irish surname Kennedy is in original form Ó Cinneide, denoting descent form a man named "ugly head". Kennedy in Scotland is a different name, from the Gaelic Cinnaedha, said to mean "sprung from fire". The same surname in Ireland became MacKenna (not related to the Scottish Kennedys).
There's also a Hungarian surname Kenedy, which may be locative in origin.
Gordon is a Scottish surname and an Eastern European Jewish surname. Are the names connected? No, pure coincidence.
You can find similar sounding names in different languages and ethnicities. So what?
My surname, Young, is not an alternative spelling of the Chinese Yung, it's from the English word 'young', no need to speculate any further.
Kenneth is an English version of the Gaelic Coinneach, which does mean 'fair'. The Irish surname Kennedy is in original form Ó Cinneide, denoting descent form a man named "ugly head". Kennedy in Scotland is a different name, from the Gaelic Cinnaedha, said to mean "sprung from fire". The same surname in Ireland became MacKenna (not related to the Scottish Kennedys).
There's also a Hungarian surname Kenedy, which may be locative in origin.
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