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Help[Facts] Re: Various Names from East Germany
in reply to a message by uteaugat
I can't say anything about Erkmons or Aduzze, but I'm guessing that Asmys may be a variant of Asmus, which comes from Erasmus (meaning "beloved"). Erasmus is Greek in origin but, so far as I can tell, Asmus and its many variants are largely German in usage.
I did find one thing on Aduzze; apparently it occurs in the book "Coming of Age in War - Torn Lithuania and Germany" By George P. Blum, where it's the given name of the author's mother's maternal grandmother. About the names, the author writes, "It is interesting that the names of all these maternal ancestors have a Lithuanian ring, suggesting that they were Germans who lived in a predominantly Lithuanian area of East Prussia and therefore used Lithuanized German names."
I did find one thing on Aduzze; apparently it occurs in the book "Coming of Age in War - Torn Lithuania and Germany" By George P. Blum, where it's the given name of the author's mother's maternal grandmother. About the names, the author writes, "It is interesting that the names of all these maternal ancestors have a Lithuanian ring, suggesting that they were Germans who lived in a predominantly Lithuanian area of East Prussia and therefore used Lithuanized German names."
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