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Help[Surname] Re: Help, Please!!!
in reply to a message by Sean Foglai
I typed "wiltgen german+surname" into my browser, and it produced some results. Luxembourg seems to be one home of the name and there is a Luxembourgeois(?) composer named Roland Wiltgen. There is a website for Americans of Luxembourg origin, and there were several references to that. There was also an Austrian professor of that name. As to the meaning, maybe Andy's Duden Lexicon has an explanation.
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Wiltgen
I'm afraid the Duden Lexikon fails here. All I could find, is WILT, a contraction of WILLHARDT.
There are several german surnames ending with -GEN, but my dictionary doesn't have a reverse index (this would take too much space) and the ones I could think of (Fremgen, Hergen) aren't in it. All I can imagine is a variant of -KEN, a deminutive suffix.
Andy ;—)
I'm afraid the Duden Lexikon fails here. All I could find, is WILT, a contraction of WILLHARDT.
There are several german surnames ending with -GEN, but my dictionary doesn't have a reverse index (this would take too much space) and the ones I could think of (Fremgen, Hergen) aren't in it. All I can imagine is a variant of -KEN, a deminutive suffix.
Andy ;—)
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