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

[Gary Warner]

Miles,

Thanks.   It looks like a lot of the words in these entries are foreign, 
even through written in German.

Gary

Miles Ertman wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
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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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