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Help[Surname] Re: Hallman?
in reply to a message by Meredith
If you look here -
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/Fact.aspx?fid=10&ln=Hallman
you will see that an English, or Swedish, OR German origin is possible, though the original German spelling had a double-L ending.
English, German and Swedish all trace back to a common ancestral language that linguistic historians have named "Old Germanic".
English word MAN is MAN in Swedish also, and MANN in German. English word HALL is HALL in Swedish and HALLE in German.
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/Fact.aspx?fid=10&ln=Hallman
you will see that an English, or Swedish, OR German origin is possible, though the original German spelling had a double-L ending.
English, German and Swedish all trace back to a common ancestral language that linguistic historians have named "Old Germanic".
English word MAN is MAN in Swedish also, and MANN in German. English word HALL is HALL in Swedish and HALLE in German.
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In German, there is another possible interpretation of the element HALL: salt mine. So HALLMANN could have been someone working in such a mine or a factory producing salt.
In Grimm's dictionary I found this:
HALLKNECHT, m. arbeiter im salzwerke zu Halle a. S. HOHNDORF beschreibung des salzwerks; s. hallor.
HALLMEISTER, m. siedemeister (boiler) in einem salzwerk.
In Grimm's dictionary I found this:
HALLKNECHT, m. arbeiter im salzwerke zu Halle a. S. HOHNDORF beschreibung des salzwerks; s. hallor.
HALLMEISTER, m. siedemeister (boiler) in einem salzwerk.
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