Vielen Dank. Paul On Déardaoin, 14 Iúil, 2011, at 09:02, Etienne Herrbach wrote: > Paul, > > -ingen or -ing is common in many parts of the Germanic linguistic area. > > Since you speak German, have a look at this page: > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ing > > Etienne > > > Le 14 juil. 11 à 14:20, [email protected] a écrit : > >> Merci. >> >> Does anyone know what the "ingen" suffix means? >> >> Paul >> >> On Dé Céadaoin, 13 Iúil, 2011, at 11:41, Etienne Herrbach wrote: >> >>> Paul, >>> >>> German surnames ending with "inger" usually derive from the name of a >>> place ending with "ingen". >>> >>> E.g. "Kentzinger" means "originating from Kentzingen", etc. >>> >>> In the case of Schwarzinger, there should be a place "Schwarzingen" >>> or >>> "Schwerzingen" somewhere in Germany, Switzerland, or Austria -- but >>> don't know where. >>> >>> I guess Schwarzenegger means "from the place named Schwarzenegg or >>> Schwarzeneck". There is a Schwarzenegg in Switzerland. >>> >>> >>> Etienne >>> >>> >>> >>> Le 13 juil. 11 à 14:48, [email protected] a écrit : >>> >>>> Does anyone know what the surname Schwarzinger means? >>>> >>>> Dark/Black - something? >>>> >>>> Or is it a corruption of Schwarzenegger? Or the other way around? >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> A google search did not help. >>>> >>>> Paul >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: >>> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine- >>> L.htm >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] >>> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >>> the body of the message >> >> >> -- >> Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] >> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >> the body of the message > > > -- > Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message