The Groeneweg Name.

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About the Groeneweg name. I did a little looking up for anyone curious. It's an uncommon but not particularly unusual name. The name is Middle Dutch or low German speaking areas bordering northern Holland.

Groene is the possessive form of Groen (in English Greene or Green)

Weg (in English translates as way or path)

Groeneweg (Middle Dutch) = Family who live along the green path (equivalent to Greeneway in English)

Likewise Greene is the possessive (or genitive) form of Green. Middle English the possessive form is either an es or e at the end, similar to Dutch and low German. In sixteenth century England, printers copied the French practice of replacing the e with an apostrophe to form the modern possessive form; Green's.

It's not really unusual once explained.
 
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AreWeThereYet said:
About the Groeneweg name. I did a little looking up for anyone curious. It's an uncommon but not particularly unusual name. The name is Middle Dutch or low German speaking areas bordering northern Holland.

Groene is the possessive form of Groen (in English Greene or Green)

Weg (in English translates as way or path)

Groeneweg (Middle Dutch) = Family who live along the green path (equivalent to Greeneway in English)

Likewise Greene is the possessive (or genitive) form of Green. Middle English the possessive form is either an es or e at the end, similar to Dutch and low German. In sixteenth century England, printers copied the French practice of replacing the e with an apostrophe to form the modern possessive form; Green's.

It's not really unusual once explained.
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so...we have another Greenway. I'll take it
 
hawkdrummer1 said:
so...we have another Greenway. I'll take it
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No relation, but basically the same surname in two different languages. Northern Europeans didn't generally adapt surnames until the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, so it would be highly doubtful the two names had the same origin.
 
AreWeThereYet said:
No relation, but basically the same surname in two different languages. Northern Europeans didn't generally adapt surnames until the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, so it would be highly doubtful the two names had the same origin.
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just go with it man... not meant to be taken literally
 
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