[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Surname HRYNJKE ?

[Jerry Frank]

In other words John, you might be looking at the equivalent of the Germanic surname Gruenke - maybe, perhaps???


Jerry



----- Original Message -----
From: Günther Böhm <GHBoehm at ish.de>
Date: Monday, April 27, 2009 10:29 am
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Surname HRYNJKE ?
To: Wolhynien-Liste <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>

> Günther Böhm schrieb:
> >     80 x HRYŃKO
> >
> > I think the last one sounds most similarly since the Polish ń 
> is 
> > pronounced like nj. According to www.moikrewni.pl most of the 
> actual 
> > HRYŃKO events are in Western Silesia where the inhabitants are 
> > descendants of immigrants from the late Eastern Poland.
> >   
> Hello John,
> the name HRYŃKO is indeed originally Ukrainian. The spelling is 
> ГРИНЬКО 
> where the Г is in Ukrainian pronounced like the German H. The 
> Russian 
> and Ukrainian combination НЬ is equivalent to the Polish Ń why 
> the name 
> may be transcribed to the German or English HRIN'KO resp. 
> HRINJKO. The 
> Ukrainian politician Hryhoriy Fedorovych HRYN'KO (Григорій 
> Федорович 
> ГРИНЬКО, Grigoriy Fyodorovich GRIN'KO) was a Soviet finance 
> minister and 
> victim of the Moscow Trials in 1938.
> 
> Günther
> 
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