[Surname] Re: Origin of "Forkapa"
by Jim Young (guest)
6/6/2007, 5:05 AM
There is a Serbo-Croat word, Saren (Šaren), which an online dictionary translates as "multicoloured". So "multicoloured cap"? If that were the meaning - emphasis on "IF" - then it would raise the possibility of the kapa in Forkapa meaning "cap". Then, how to explain FOR-?