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Help[Facts] Re: last name help
in reply to a message by Cassie
Hi Cassie,
There are some different possibilities concerning the origin of the German name Röse / Roese:
1) A name for a rose lover or rose grower
2) Coming from a place named Rösa (in Sachsen-Anhalt, Eastern Germany)
3) Coming from a place named Rose, Rosa or Rosau (MANY place names in Germany)
4) Living in a house named "Rose" or "zur Rose"
5) Professional name from Middle Low German "rose", "kalkrose" (= lime grate) for a limeburner
6) From a German first name Rozo, a pet form for names beginning with Ruod-/Rod-/Rud- (like Roderich, Rudolf, Ruodbert etc.) meaning "fame"
Possibilities 1-4 all come from the flower name Rose (same in English).
The o becoming an ö is like a kind of a diminutive form:
Röschen ("little rose" in modern High German)
Rösken ("little rose" in modern Low German)
Rösle ("little rose" in modern south German dialects)
Rösli ("little rose" in modern Swiss German)
For the pronunciation you can listen here:
http://www.ex.ac.uk/german/abinitio/pronounce/
Choose "Long & short ö" from the list on the right hand side. Then listen to no. 1 "The long "ö" sound". There's a word "böse" (naughty) which sounds exactly like Röse / Roese except for the b instead of the r in the beginning.
You can listen to the "r" sound as well. Consonants are on the list on the left hand side. Listen to the last example "Reporter".
Hope that helps!
Regards, Satu
There are some different possibilities concerning the origin of the German name Röse / Roese:
1) A name for a rose lover or rose grower
2) Coming from a place named Rösa (in Sachsen-Anhalt, Eastern Germany)
3) Coming from a place named Rose, Rosa or Rosau (MANY place names in Germany)
4) Living in a house named "Rose" or "zur Rose"
5) Professional name from Middle Low German "rose", "kalkrose" (= lime grate) for a limeburner
6) From a German first name Rozo, a pet form for names beginning with Ruod-/Rod-/Rud- (like Roderich, Rudolf, Ruodbert etc.) meaning "fame"
Possibilities 1-4 all come from the flower name Rose (same in English).
The o becoming an ö is like a kind of a diminutive form:
Röschen ("little rose" in modern High German)
Rösken ("little rose" in modern Low German)
Rösle ("little rose" in modern south German dialects)
Rösli ("little rose" in modern Swiss German)
For the pronunciation you can listen here:
http://www.ex.ac.uk/german/abinitio/pronounce/
Choose "Long & short ö" from the list on the right hand side. Then listen to no. 1 "The long "ö" sound". There's a word "böse" (naughty) which sounds exactly like Röse / Roese except for the b instead of the r in the beginning.
You can listen to the "r" sound as well. Consonants are on the list on the left hand side. Listen to the last example "Reporter".
Hope that helps!
Regards, Satu
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