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minus-squarenightlily@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 days agoI think you might be confusing things with the fact that the German aristocracy was stripped of all privilege but allowed to adopt their house as a family name, in which case it is just a name that shouldn’t be literally translated.
minus-squareAceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 days agoMaybe. As I wrote elsewhere, I’ve just seen a couple of times Germanic house names written as “von Something”. That is, however, the full extent of my knowledge on the subject.
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days agoOooh so they might be like Wolfgang Schmidt von Nameoftheirhouse? Because in that case I’m gonna start using that because one of the houses I grew up in had a name, since it was a tad older.
I think you might be confusing things with the fact that the German aristocracy was stripped of all privilege but allowed to adopt their house as a family name, in which case it is just a name that shouldn’t be literally translated.
Maybe.
As I wrote elsewhere, I’ve just seen a couple of times Germanic house names written as “von Something”.
That is, however, the full extent of my knowledge on the subject.
Oooh so they might be like Wolfgang Schmidt von Nameoftheirhouse?
Because in that case I’m gonna start using that because one of the houses I grew up in had a name, since it was a tad older.