[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Double letters

[Sigrid Pohl Perry]

Dear Eduardo,

Do you mean the custom of the dash over the "m" or "n"? That practice 
probably goes back to medieval manuscripts in which abbreviations for 
common letter combinations or even prefixes and suffixes like "per" and 
"pro" and "quibus" were written in Latin. Some of those were most likely 
kept and used because of the savings in space and time in writing. 
German also used the special "Schluß s" for "ss."

Best,
Sigrid Pohl Perry


On 1/13/2016 7:34 AM, Eduardo Kommers wrote:
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> The name KOMMERS was written sometimes with one "M" with a dash over the
> letter, meaning a double "M". I see this happening with the letter N as
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> Some years ago I made this question here but I think I lost these messages.
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> Is anyone here aware of this grammatical situation involving German-Russian
> family names? Where did it come from?
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> Thanks,
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> Eduardo Kommers
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