In article <3380DEB1.1577@ftcnet.com>, Bill Watamaniuk <bimiwat@FTCNET.COM> wrote: >RONJOY wrote: >> >> Looking for the origin of the surname LUGOWSKI > > >Hi, > > I don't know if this will help, but an Ukrainian equivalent is >"Luhovsky" - which leads me to suppose that Lugovsky may either be a >"altered" form of the Ukrainian surname, or it is Polish, because of the >h/g, g/h shift. > > I am curious myself, on strictly liguistic grounds. > >Bill W The surname LUGOWSI may be derived from the word "LUG" which means "meadow" in several Slavic languages. Another variant is place name, like "LUGA".