[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Name translations

[Otto]

 >my Boehnert ancestry there was a bean-grower?<
 >A true benefactor of mankind!<

No Richard,
You will not be excused that easily-
I am a bit hesitant in answering a question, as that, of a man as  
you, with a vast familiarity with language.
Exclamation points are emotion laden.
I will assume it is with due rectitude a valid question of you, and I  
answer it with integrity to the best of my knowledge.

Your surname has nothing to do with beans.
Kidney or fava, red bean, purple royalty, or whatever. . .
and probably never did.
The German spelling of of 'bean' = 'bohne', the plural of bean is  
'bohnen'.
Bohnsack=beanbag.
[the old Prussian village of 'Bohnsack' is today known as  
'Sobieszewo' and a going concern on the Baltic coast a stone's throw  
east of Gdansk.]

Your surname is "BÖHN" or if hacked out on a typewriter without  
umlaut characters an 'E' is added after the umlaut vowel spelling the  
surname as "BOEHN".  So you are a Boehn-ert, or one of the Boehns. or  
morph it into an English Benert.

What is a Boehn?

  Perhaps  Günther Böhm can enlighten us. . .?

Is it a variation of 'Böhm-Boehm'?   Boehm-ert ... ?
Boehm'ert-pronounced Baim'ert.  The ai is the same sound as in 'air'.

(here is a bit of 'cut & paste' from a popular genetics site)
start paste>----------------------------------------------------->
BEHA (100)  -  German:  One of many variants of BOEHM.
BOEHM (4,590)  -  German (Böhm), Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic);   
ethnic name for a native or inhabitant of Bohemia (now the western  
part of the Czech Republic), from Böhmen, German name for Bohemia.   
This derives its name from the tribal name Baii + heim 'homeland';   
the Baii were a tribe, probably Celtic, who inhabited the region in  
the 1st century AD and were gradually displaced by Slavic settlers in  
the period up to the 5th century.  The same tribe also gave their  
name to Bavaria.  Bohemia was an independent Slavic kingdom from the  
7th century to 1526, when it fell to the Habsburgs.  In 1627 it was  
formally declared a Habsburg Crown Land and by the Treaty of  
Versailles it became a province of the newly formed Czechoslovakia in  
1919.  Boehm is also found as a Swedish name.
  *  The origins for the surnames above are provided by: Dictionary  
of American Family Names, by Hanks.  The DAFN surname entries are  
structured to provide the surname (with alternate spellings), a  
comparative frequency of the surname in the U.S., the source language  
and origin of the surname, original spelling, typology, etymology  
and, in some cases, an identification of forebears.

*Spelling variations: Beha,  Behe,  Behm,  Behme,  Boehm,  Boehme
*soundex: Behm,  Behme,  Boehn,  Boehme
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A Böhm-ert is what the person would be.  Is Böhnert a variation of  
Böhmert?

Is Böhm-er or Böhm-ert the same as the English word "Bohemian"? or  
"Bohemians"?

What is the Swedish meaning of "Boehm"? Is it similar to the German  
word?



. . . It never is just a 'punt the ball' and then walk the bases.

On Oct 10, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Richard Benert wrote:

> So, Otto, would you say that at the start of my Boehnert ancestry  
> there was a bean-grower?  If so, it makes me proud.  A true  
> benefactor of mankind!
>
> Dick Benert

Richard O. Schienke
. . .   Otto

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