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  2. Where Does The Last Name Hessen Come From? nationality or country of origin Hessen (Arabic: هسن, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺤﺴﻦ) is more commonly found in Egypt than any other country/territory.

  3. Name - Surnames, Origins, Meanings: Family names came into use in the later Middle Ages (beginning roughly in the 11th century); the process was completed by the end of the 16th century. The use of family names seems to have originated in aristocratic families and in big cities, where they developed from original individual surnames when the ...

  4. Where does this last name information come from? Surname information comes from The Dictionary of American Family Names by Patrick Hanks. Hanks is an internationally renowned lexicographer and names researcher affiliated with Brandeis University.

  5. Hesse-Darmstadt, former landgraviate, grand duchy, and state of Germany. It was formed in 1567 in the division of old Hesse; after Hesse-Kassel was absorbed by Prussia in 1866, Hesse-Darmstadt was usually known simply as Hesse. Hesse-Darmstadt was originally only the small territory of Upper

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  6. Feb 15, 2017 · The word “Jew” ultimately comes from Judah, an ancient kingdom centered in Jerusalem, in the 2nd century BCE. But how did the kingdom's Hebrew name, Yehudah (Judah in English), pronounced ye-hu-DAH, beget “Jew”? The earliest reference to the Kingdom of Judah is in a clay tablet found in Nimrud, the capital of the mighty Assyrian Empire ...

  7. Jul 4, 2016 · Where does the name America come from? It is a Romance-speaking of the Visigoth royal name Amalrich, from the Amalean family, who derived their descent from the Aesir god Amal. What does the name America mean? Its basic meaning is: Eternal Enlightened Energy . . . So the name America is: Original German! Pan-German! And Made in Germany!

  8. Sep 26, 2018 · The F-word was recorded in a dictionary in 1598 (John Florio’s A Worlde of Wordes, London: Arnold Hatfield for Edw. Blount). It is remotely derived from the Latin futuere and Old German ficken/fucken meaning ‘to strike or penetrate’, which had the slang meaning to copulate. Eric Partridge, a famous etymologist, said that the German word ...

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