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shevy-java • yesterday at 12:01 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

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wongarsu • yesterday at 1:29 PM

[resource]+[mountain/stone/field/valley/tree] in German is a very common pattern for Jewish surnames. A quirk of how surnames were adopted in German-speaking regions in the 18th century

Sugar mountain at least makes sense, unlike e.g. wine stone

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fuzzy2 • yesterday at 1:04 PM

Not strange. It's a Jewish name.

Scrapemist • yesterday at 12:37 PM

What about Altman?

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