Hello world, ><HTML><PRE>Subject: Does endings on Polish surnames have any meaning? >From: "bwysocki" <[email protected]> >Date: Sat, Jun 27, 1998 15:18 EDT >Message-id: <[email protected]> > >My name ends in 'cki' . No one realizes it is Polish. KK> You have been spared the abuse I grew up with then. There are many jealous of our intelligence. >I was told Wysocki means "tall" (seems true- I'm 6'3"). KK> "wysoki" means "tall, elevated, high." The suffix -cki or -ski generally means from, like or of. I have the surname Wysocki in my own family pedigree as a toponym ("from" the village of Wysoka Zaborska). This is a very common surname with almost 30,000 people in Poland with that name in 1990. KK> For more information I suggest that you purchase an excellent book titled: Polish Suranmes: Origins and Meanings by William F. Hoffman from the Polish Genealogical Society of America. >Just curious of any meaning if name ends in 'ski', >'cki', or other. > >Thanks > > ></PRE></HTML> Keith A. Kaszubik Hamburg, New York near Buffalo.