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Ciliox/Ziliox Any ideas?
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While doing ancestry research, came across this entry for a male, living 1664 to 1719 in Contwig, Sudwestpfalz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Any ideas on (1) pronunciation (2) meanings? No idea what the family did for a living, but I do know that a lot of male relatives married women from Switzerland or France.Thanks for any help!
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Should be pronounced /ˈt͡siː.li̯ɔks/ (TSEEL-yawks, TSEE-lee-awks).
From what I could gather from the preview of Wilfried Seibickes "Historisches deutsches Vornamenbuch" on Google Books it appears to be a version of Cyriacus. I can't read the full article, though.You could ask the philological department of the University of Leipzig. https://www.philol.uni-leipzig.de/namenberatungsstelle

This message was edited 3/28/2025, 1:14 PM

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