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09/11/2007 14:30:12
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Not that I know of.

>Do you have any Brazilian ancestors?
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>>My last name in Old English means "White forest". The ending of my last name ley = old English, leigh = middle English, Forest = modern English. Maybe a new English word will be chosen for forest one day soon! :)
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>>>How I manage to keep a surname dealing with forests, woods, or trees is surprising :o)
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>>>>>It's been a joke in my family since I married a Holzer :o) I've had the Holzer lastname since then and I kept it after the divorce so I share the same lastname as my daughter. Holzer in German means to fell trees or perhaps woods some tell me. Very close to Skogen! :o)
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>>>>Close. Zu holzen means to fell trees. But after checking carefully with my German dictionary, I think that Holzer in fact is plural for Holz. So we don't have to fool in this case. Holzer means many trees, and many trees is a skog, in Norwegian.
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>>>>>>I just realized something funny with your "new" last name.
>>>>>>Holz = In German "Holz" means "tree".
>>>>>>Er: In Norwegian "er" in the end of a noun, means that it's plural.
>>>>>>So if you combine German and Norwegian, you can say that Holzer means many trees which is a forest. And in Norwegian Skogen means the forest. Coincidence? :-))
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>>>>>>>One of the reasons I picked it. I'm a Skogen :o)
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