[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Ger-Poland-Volhynia Digest, Vol 35, Issue 24

[Günther Böhm]

Verna Hutchinson schrieb:

>Our family Laudinsky had a "sky" put at the end of their name.
>My grandfather says that the original name was Laudin
>What would be the difference between having a "sky" or a "ski"
>on the end of your original name.
>Verna
>

Hello Verna,
-ski and -sky  [like -ow and -ov] are official Polish and Czech 
spellings and may point to the country where the name originally came from.

Guenther