[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Wilcziska = Witkowska

[Günther Böhm]

Günther Böhm schrieb:

>WILCZISKA seems to be an American derivate of WILCZEWSKA, the female 
>version of WILCZEWSKI which again derives from WILCZEW = 'of the wolves' 
>(wilk = wolve).
>
Gilda,
the proposed WILCZINSKI is indeed much likelier than WILCZEWSKI ( 
www.herby.com.pl offers 16569 WILCZYŃSKI in Poland concentrating in the 
late Kielce, Katowice, Poznań, Lublin, Łódź, Gdańsk, Włocławek and 
Bydgosc woiwodships). The name could derive from at least three villages:

   1. Wilczyn, Konin district,
   2. Wilczyna, Szamotuły district,
   3. Wilczyn, Biała Podlaska district.

The first one is the most populated (1200 inhabitants).

wilczy = wolfish, ravening

Günther