Etymology

Seitz

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

German Seitz ← Slovene Zajec
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The story

  1. Slovene · derived fromZajec
  2. German · borrowed fromSeiss
  3. German · borrowed fromSeitz
  4. English todaySeitz

Multiple etymologies: * German Seitz, from the personal name Seifried * variant of German Seiss * Germanized form of Slovene Zajec and dialectal Zajc, both meaning "hare"

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