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Help[Facts] As long as we are posting about last names....
in reply to a message by Pavlos
Where does the last name "Slifer" come from? What about "Heller"? Does anyone know the answer to these?
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We really should be doing this on the surname board, but...
...here goes:
A Heller is a small German formerly current in Germany, worth half a pfennig. It was named from the imperial city Schwäbisch-Hall, where it was first coined. Alternatively, a heller is one who "hells around" :P Slifer
No idea about Slifer though..
...here goes:
A Heller is a small German formerly current in Germany, worth half a pfennig. It was named from the imperial city Schwäbisch-Hall, where it was first coined. Alternatively, a heller is one who "hells around" :P Slifer
No idea about Slifer though..
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Heller and Slifer
Heller:
1) Pavlos' explanation is exactly right!!
2) from the German place name Heller (there are places named Heller in North Rhine-Westphalia, former Brandenburg [now Poland] and Silesia)
Slifer
looks like an anglicized version of the German surname Schleifer:
1) from the Middle High German word "slifære" which means "grinder, polisher"
2) from the German place name Schleif (in Bavaria and Luxemburg)
3) from the German place name Schleife (in Saxony)
Regards, Satu
Heller:
1) Pavlos' explanation is exactly right!!
2) from the German place name Heller (there are places named Heller in North Rhine-Westphalia, former Brandenburg [now Poland] and Silesia)
Slifer
looks like an anglicized version of the German surname Schleifer:
1) from the Middle High German word "slifære" which means "grinder, polisher"
2) from the German place name Schleif (in Bavaria and Luxemburg)
3) from the German place name Schleife (in Saxony)
Regards, Satu
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