[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] German Dialect question
DLPratt123 at aol.com
DLPratt123 at aol.com
Fri Dec 28 12:51:59 PST 2012
My grandparents surnamed Hirsekorn emigrated from Volhynia in 1906 and
1907. The birth certificate for their son (from the Polish Baptist church in
Lucinow) is in Cyrillic, spelling the surname in a way that suggests that
the s was pronounced like the s in English `vision' or `pleasure'. Do any of
you know of a German dialect in which `Hirse' would have been so
pronounced? (This would explain why others occasionally spelled the surname as
Hirschkorn.)
Dan Pratt
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