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[Facts] Re: Gonneke
by Frollein Gladys
9/19/2014, 4:43 PM
in reply to a message by Sabertooth
The suffix Quill referred to is not so much -neke, but rather simply -ke.
This -ke is originally a Low German diminutive suffix (compare names like Anke); however, it has also been used to feminize masculine names for centuries.

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