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Many of today's last names (including many of the most common last names) derive from the medieval tradition of appending people's trade to their given name (for a fictional example, see Ken Follett's "The Pillars of the Earth" and "World Without End"). So let's bring them all together here, those Smiths, Millers, Bakers, Farmers, etc.!
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An Irish Country Christmas (Irish Country #3)
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Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
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The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany
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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
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Nederland leest de mooiste korte verhalen (Editie Noord-Holland)
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Here and Then (Beyond the Threshold, #2)
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Hermann Maier: The Race of My Life
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Report from Ground Zero
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Cornelia: The First Woman of Rome
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Stress Management: A Comprehensive Handbook of Techniques and Strategies
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Time Without End (Vampire, #3)
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The Weeping and the Laughter
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Pieces of My Heart: A Life
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Schlafes Bruder
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Listen to the Silence (Sharon McCone #20)
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In Search of Owain Glyndŵr
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The Book of Chocolates and Petits Fours
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Die abenteuerliche Geschichte der Filomena Findeisen
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The Savior of Turk
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Forever and the Night (Vampire #1)
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The Earls of Essex: A Tale of Noble Misfortune
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The Book of Chinese Cooking
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Christmas in Venice
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MMPI-A: Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology
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Lily and the Major (Orphan Train, #1)
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Isabella: Queen Without a Conscience (Plantagenet Queens #2)
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Meyers großes Taschenlexikon in 26 Bänden
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Heaven Can Wait
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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Emma and the Outlaw (Orphan Train, #2)
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The Poet of Tolstoy Park
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2010 Writer's Market
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Robert Lee Brewer (Editor)
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Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia
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Caroline and the Raider (Orphan Train, #3)
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Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader
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Faithful to My Heart
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Puzzles
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The Land (Logans, #1)
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Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
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Trouble for Trumpets
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Lillie
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Der Schattenbeschwörer
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The Complete Poems 1927-1979
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Reverend Randollph and the Fall from Grace, Inc. (Reverend Randollph, #3)
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The Greatest Romance Stories Ever Told: Seventeen Unforgettable Love Stories
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Afternoon of the Elves
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Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
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Little Critter's The Picnic
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Chocolate Dipped Death (A Candy Shop Mystery, #2)
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The Weirdo
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The End of Everything
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3.35 avg rating — 15,984 ratings
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| 453 |
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I Know An Old Woman Who Swallowed A Fly
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4.10 avg rating — 2,818 ratings
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The Strangler Vine (The Blake and Avery Mystery Series, #1)
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An Inexpressible State of Grace
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Through the Evil Days (Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries, #8)
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4.06 avg rating — 5,940 ratings
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Sofia
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Ann Chamberlin (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 602 ratings
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Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
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Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka
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Suddenly While Gardening (Pollard & Toye, #10)
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Warrior Girl: A Novel of Joan of Arc
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The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of North American Birds
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Brer Rabbit
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Angel
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The Average Human
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The Plantagenet Socialite
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Thursday's Child: Memoirs of an Ex-Nun
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The Book of Hiram
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Room Temperature
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Hip-Deep in Alligators
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The Late Contessa
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The Little Red Caboose
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Flying Giants of Long Ago (Let's-Read-And-Find-Out Science Book)
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Costa Rica
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A Vain and Indecent Woman (Classic Historical Fiction Book 8)
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Todeserklärung (Knobel, #2)
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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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Sarah Canary
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Der Schatz der gläsernen Wächter (Der Schatz der gläsernen Wächter, #1)
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Ship of Fools
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The Age of Plantagenet and Valois
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Arkadien erwacht (Arkadien, #1)
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Cliffs of Dread
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The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America
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Thirteen Hours (Benny Griessel, #2)
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Christmas Cookie Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #6)
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The Last Boleyn
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The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age
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The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern (Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery, #4)
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The Queen's Governess
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Bubbles Unbound (Bubbles Yablonsky, #1)
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Thinning the Turkey Herd
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British Film Actors' Credits 1895-1987
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The Wolf and the Woman's Touch
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Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
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American Rust
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Jul 08, 2010 07:49AM
FOOTNOTE: Sartoris....."taylor" in Latin.
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Yes, of course! (What am I missing about Atwood's "Blind Assassin," though?)
Forester, perhaps.
Wagner? Muller? Ferber?
(Just found Ferber... Farber=Dyer in german)
Wagner? Muller? Ferber?
(Just found Ferber... Farber=Dyer in german)
Meier (or in last names, any variant spelling) refers to a poulty farmer in German.Wagner => wagonner (a wagon driver). Same in German for a wagon, or rather, cart wheel maker, btw.
Müller = German for miller.
Forster = forester (forest keeper); again, virtually the same in German (Förster).
And, yes, Ferber (or actually, Färber) = German for dyer.
Anyone for French names? (Boulanger? Patissier? Boucher?)
Thanks T.-A. You learn something new every day!
Färber: can't do the umlaut thing on my keyboard... or accents...
Wiki failed me on these!
Färber: can't do the umlaut thing on my keyboard... or accents...
Wiki failed me on these!
Yeah, I know -- that used to drive me nuts when I was living in the States! I hated always having to open a Word doc, insert the umlaut as a special symbol and then copy it ...
It's not bad on a Mac, but I never have figured out how to do it on a PC keyboard.And what is "Atwood"?
Susanna wrote: "It's not bad on a Mac, but I never have figured out how to do it on a PC keyboard.
I know there is a way, but I cant remember the stupid code numbers...
Themis-Athena wrote: "Yeah, I know -- that used to drive me nuts when I was living in the States! I hated always having to open a Word doc, insert the umlaut as a special symbol and then copy it ..."
...so I've got the ones I use most on my Google side bar, so I just have to copy and paste. No umlaut in Italian, however!
I know there is a way, but I cant remember the stupid code numbers...
Themis-Athena wrote: "Yeah, I know -- that used to drive me nuts when I was living in the States! I hated always having to open a Word doc, insert the umlaut as a special symbol and then copy it ..."
...so I've got the ones I use most on my Google side bar, so I just have to copy and paste. No umlaut in Italian, however!
Themis-Athena wrote: "Yes, of course! (What am I missing about Atwood's "Blind Assassin," though?)"Well, it's kinda grim, but "assassin" is a profession in the story-within-the-story. They are higherlings, and there are several of them, the blind assassins. And, of course, there are many books about professional assassins, more's the pity. Martin Sheen plays a professional assassin in Apocalypse Now, a film I wish was a book so I could make GR questions about it.
No, but other diacritical marks (à etc.) ...
Susanna wrote: "It's not bad on a Mac, but I never have figured out how to do it on a PC keyboard.And what is "Atwood"?"
Yes, I'm wondering about that as well!
Themis-Athena wrote: "Susanna wrote: "It's not bad on a Mac, but I never have figured out how to do it on a PC keyboard.And what is "Atwood"?"
Yes, I'm wondering about that as well!"
One of my grad school classmates was one Alfred KLEINERKREUTZMAN......What's that about ?
Little cross man??!!
Themis-Athena wrote: "Little cross man??!!"Yes, he said his grandfather would tell the story of how the name came to be, but if Al ever told ME the story, I forgot it. I'm guessing it was the person who was "kleiner", not the cross.
Don't forget 'cooper', 'chandler', 'baker', etc. Any such list could get really unweildy really fast.
Do feel free to add books by Coopers, Chandlers, Bakers, etc. ... the more the merrier, as far as I'm concerned! :)
What's a 'James'? (As in Henry James, #10)'Bakker' is Dutch for baker, by the way. 'Boer' is Dutch for farmer and 'Brouwer' is Dutch for brewer. 'Molenaar' is miller, 'Meester' is (school) master and 'Visser' is fisherman.
'Kuyper' is the old Dutch form of 'Kuiper' - Cooper in English'Craemer' is the old Dutch form of 'Kramer' - Peddler/Pedlar in English
'Coster' is the old Dutch form of 'Koster' - Sacristan in English
'Volder' is Dutch for Fuller
'Olyslaegers' is Dutch for a person who crushes plant seeds to get the oil (I don't know the English translation for this)
Koenraad wrote: "''Olyslaegers' is Dutch for a person who crushes plant seeds to get the oil (I don't know the English translation for this).."Olyslaegers (Olieslager) = oil-crusher/oil-presser :-)
Coster/Koster is also Sexton. She isn't in the list yet, and I don't have any of her work, otherwise I would have added something by Anne Sexton.
Hayes wrote: "(Just found Ferber... Farber=Dyer in german)"The Dutch surname 'Verver'/'Verwer' also means 'dyer'.
Booklovinglady wrote: "Olyslaegers (Olieslager) = oil-crusher/oil-presser :-)"Thanks for the translation - didn't realize it was quite that simple :-)
"Coster/Koster is also Sexton. She isn't in the list yet, and I don't have any of her work, otherwise I would have added something by Anne Sexton."
You can add books that are not on your shelves to a list. Just go to "Add Books To This List" and click on Search where it says "Add books from: My Books or a Search". Then you can look up a title, an ISBN or an author and add books from the results.
Added Felix Timmermans and Lia Timmermans (father and daughter btw). Dutch for' Carpenter'.
Koenraad wrote: "Added Felix Timmermans and Lia Timmermans (father and daughter btw). Dutch for' Carpenter'."Completely forgot about Felix Timmermans.... I've added an omnibus with his work. Thanks Koenraad.
Added another one too, by the way: Snijders (son of 'Snijder') = cutter
Koenraad wrote: "You can add books that are not on your shelves to a list...."I know I can ;-) but I rarely do. Except for Listopia's used for the seasonal challenges of the Netherlands & Flanders group (in which only titles of books translated into Dutch are mentioned), because if I stuck to the titles on my own shelves for these, I wouldn't have a Listopia to refer to :-)
Hayes wrote: "Wagner? Muller? Ferber...""Wagner" is German and if I remember correctly it has something or other to do with carts/wagons. So maybe someone who makes carts and wagons. I'm sorry, but it is nearly 40 years ago since I took German classes in high school :-)
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