[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Malachowski

[Otto]

Gary Comes,

The surname, Malachowski, is a prominent Polish surname. (diacritical  
slash on the l)
Count Malachowski was a Polish noble in Central Poland (Konskie-Duchy  
of Warsaw)
-This 'may' serve as an indicator as to where to begin your search-

There existed also a St. Malachowski. (Warsaw)
Also a Malachowski museum.

* "Malach" is a Hebrew word meaning 'angel' or 'messenger'.
Stand-a-lone, without the 'ow' and 'ski' suffixes, it could substitute  
for the German word, 'Engel'.

(caution) The surname "Malachowski" is spelled two ways depending of  
the user of it:

1. Malach'ow'ski without the diacritical horizontal slash on the 'l'

* and 2. Malach'ow'ski, with the diacritical horizontal slash on the  
'l'. Pronounced Mawach'ow'ski.
-Mawach and Malach could have two different distinct meanings.

*• Here is where a speaker of the Polish language can discriminate  
between the two ways of sounding out the name in giving answer to, "Do  
they mean the same thing?"   Can they properly be sounded out only one  
way, that is, spelling it with the diacritical mark?

. . .   Otto
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