6/19 All knowing motd, What is the nationality/ethnicity/origin of the
surname "Kanarek." Maybe someone who has more search web fu than me
can recommend how to find out. The origin-surname-genealogy sites
given by google are too weak for this name.
\_ Most likely Polish, but could be Czech, Slovak, or one of the
minority western slavic languages (Sorbian or whatnot),
hypothetically speaking. Based on 3 minutes of googling and
knowledge of a Slavic language, I'm fairly convinced that the main
occurence of the name is from Polish "kanarek", for (small?) canary.
"Kanar-" is the obvious borrowed root, and -ek is a common Slavic
diminutive suffix. Not that this precludes the Oriya theory below,
but Google gives tons of hits in Poland and with Polish first names,
and none with Indian names or in India, so the Polish theory is
more likely. (To substantiate this -- do a google image search for
"kanarek" and you'll see a few pictures of canaries.) -alexf
\_ why don't you just ask her?
\- Konarak is famous sun temple in the indian state of
Orissa. Are you sure about the spelling?
\_ fine. if you dont want to ask her, then go to google
and type kanarek and look for other people with that
last name to get clue. As a last resort, call up someone
in the phone book. These techniques work even when you
have no fu.
\_ None of these will work if the name is sufficiently rare
or a very unusual spelling of a common name.
\_ PicsP
\_ http://www.republika.pl/aniapal/images/kanarek.jpg
<DEAD>www.hobit-pv.cz/obrazky/kanarek.gif<DEAD> -alexf
\_ Wow! She's hot! Better than all the h0t 4z1an ch1kz!!! |