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Help[Surname] Re: Gamarnik
in reply to a message by Mark Alejski
"Smith" seems most likely. Hamarnik would then be the Ukrainian version of Slovak Hamornik, the latter then borrowed into Ukrainian as the word Google renders "wanderer" (originally a "journeyman" smith or tinker?). In many European languages words for tinker or tinsmith are synonymous with "traveller" or "Romany".
This message was edited 2/7/2019, 5:47 AM
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