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

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