[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] German Occupation - Latvian - Contractor

[Miles Ertman]

A  Latvian friend gave the following remarks:

"The word could possibly be kontranieks: a man (-ieks
is m. ending) who makes contracts...on jobs of work
for example "I can get this job done for $X:00".  But
frankly this is not a Latvian way of saying such a
thing. We would say uznemejs (sorry, no diacritic
marks!). So, very foreign, as if a foreigner were
making up a Latvan word.
Kontrakt is also an old fashioned  German word for
contract ... so could be a made up word."



On 30-May-07, at 1:35 PM, Gary Warner wrote:

> Gilda,
>
> That is what I also think, but it must be a term no longer in use,  
> as I
> cannot look it up in a Latvian dictionary (a simple online one,  
> however).
>
> Gary
>
> Rachael Patterson wrote:
>> An associate genealogist, who is German & lives in Hamburg (a  
>> possible
>> distant cousin of mine, still est. the link), suggested the term  
>> might be
>> of Latvian origin & could possibly mean "Contractor"
>>
>> ...Gilda in Calgary
>>
>>
>> On 5/29/07, ger-poland-volhynia-request at eclipse.sggee.org <
>> ger-poland-volhynia-request at eclipse.sggee.org> wrote:
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>>> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 17:35:28 +0200
>>> From: Irene K?nig <kopetzke at gmx.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] German occupation
>>> To: Gary Warner <gary at warnerengineering.com>
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>>> Gary Warner schrieb am 25.05.2007 17:12 Uhr:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I am looking at an 1880s Latvian birth record that is in  
>>>> German.   There
>>>> is an occupation that is shown as
>>>>
>>>> kontraktneek
>>>>
>>> Gary,
>>>
>>> kontraktneek / kontraktnik must be a Russian word, however, I do not
>>> find it in Pawlowsky's dictionnary (1911). Difficult to say what  
>>> it was
>>> in Latvia in 1880. Literally it means something like "someone who is
>>> under contract".
>>>
>>> This is what I found on the net:
>>>
>>> -----
>>>
>>> ??????????? (Kontraktnik) - contract soldier
>>>
>>> CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS. A DICTIONARY. (English-Russian) Geneva,  
>>> 2002
>>>
>>> http://se2.dcaf.ch/serviceengine/FileContent? 
>>> serviceID=DCAF&fileid=8593E081-25A9-726D-ACB4-646AD0E5BBA3&lng=en
>>>
>>> -----
>>>
>>> In Chechnya, mercenary soldiers were also called "kontraktniki", see
>>> http://www.fidh.org/europ/rapport/2000pdf/fr/crimtche.pdf
>>> page 50
>>>
>>> -----
>>>
>>> Furthermore, "kontraktnik" might be someone who is teaching,  
>>> maybe under
>>> fixed-term contract(?).
>>>
>>> agent contractuel [French] - ?????????? ?? ?????????, "???????????"
>>>
>>> http://window.edu.ru/window_catalog/files/r37402/makarovamak.pdf
>>> page 78
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