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names. TREES. ALL the TREES and trees and trees.
On another site, I saw a comment by someone with surname "Bumgarner".
I'm familiar with the surname "Baumgartner" which comes from German and means something like "Tree Gardener". So I wondered if that was the person's real name, and he'd shortened it like that as a joke... bum-garner... gatherer of bums... I was thinking of the British definition of "bum", ie. "buttocks", though gatherer of tramps could be amusing too.
But no, according to the 2010 Census there were over 6000 people in the U.S. with the surname Bumgarner.
It truly is however, a "Respelling of German Baumgartner."
Bumgarner History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms - This page seems lip-curling to me. It shows the "Ancient Arms of Bumgarner" image with a tree and a small picket fence around it. It says "They are believed to have been of the order of the Teutonic Knights." Jeez Louize, the site is trying to sell stuff. It says the name means "Orchard" when it must have meant someone who worked in an orchard - the name comes from BaumgartNER, not BaumgarTEN. But anyway, the page also has some good stuff:
"Spelling variations of this family name include: Baumgarner, Baumgarten, Baumgart, Paumgarten, Baumgartel, Paumgartel, Paumgart, Bomgarten, Baumgarden, Pomgarten, Pomgarden, Baumgartner, Paumgartner, Baumgarden, Bamgardner, Bogart, Bogaard, Bogaart and many more."
So the name Bogart (from Dutch) (as in Humphrey Bogart) also comes from, or is related to Baumgartner! And actually, boomgaard is the Dutch word for "orchard", so ok then.
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Kudos to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
conuly, for letting me know about this online etymology dictionary!
This was another post intended to be quick and short on something that amused me, which while writing it morphed into umpteen more things of curiosity to me. It's now an hour and a half later. This is why I shouldn't...
It also took longer to write due to words being difficult to me this morning.
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Other items of curiosity:
Bummer - is related to the German verb "bummeln - to go slowly, waste time." In my experience, "bummeln" is used in a positive sense, as in "let's go have a good time, strolling around downtown looking at stores and things."
Bumptious - an adjective that means "offensively assertive".
I'm familiar with the surname "Baumgartner" which comes from German and means something like "Tree Gardener". So I wondered if that was the person's real name, and he'd shortened it like that as a joke... bum-garner... gatherer of bums... I was thinking of the British definition of "bum", ie. "buttocks", though gatherer of tramps could be amusing too.
But no, according to the 2010 Census there were over 6000 people in the U.S. with the surname Bumgarner.
It truly is however, a "Respelling of German Baumgartner."
Bumgarner History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms - This page seems lip-curling to me. It shows the "Ancient Arms of Bumgarner" image with a tree and a small picket fence around it. It says "They are believed to have been of the order of the Teutonic Knights." Jeez Louize, the site is trying to sell stuff. It says the name means "Orchard" when it must have meant someone who worked in an orchard - the name comes from BaumgartNER, not BaumgarTEN. But anyway, the page also has some good stuff:
"Spelling variations of this family name include: Baumgarner, Baumgarten, Baumgart, Paumgarten, Baumgartel, Paumgartel, Paumgart, Bomgarten, Baumgarden, Pomgarten, Pomgarden, Baumgartner, Paumgartner, Baumgarden, Bamgardner, Bogart, Bogaard, Bogaart and many more."
So the name Bogart (from Dutch) (as in Humphrey Bogart) also comes from, or is related to Baumgartner! And actually, boomgaard is the Dutch word for "orchard", so ok then.
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Kudos to
conuly, for letting me know about this online etymology dictionary!This was another post intended to be quick and short on something that amused me, which while writing it morphed into umpteen more things of curiosity to me. It's now an hour and a half later. This is why I shouldn't...
It also took longer to write due to words being difficult to me this morning.
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Other items of curiosity:
Bummer - is related to the German verb "bummeln - to go slowly, waste time." In my experience, "bummeln" is used in a positive sense, as in "let's go have a good time, strolling around downtown looking at stores and things."
Bumptious - an adjective that means "offensively assertive".
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See, this is why I could never do Twitter. I can barely write a short and to the point anything without falling down some rabbit hole either of my own creation or else search-supplied. Making such thoughts into "a thread" like the kids do nowadays kind of blows that argument apart, but not really, because why do a Twitter thread when it seems faster/easier to just write a post, and posting elsewhere has editing capabilities that Twitter doesn't (which means that to post on Twitter at all, much less multithreadedly, means you *must* be a good writer who needs/wants little editing).
This comment, too, brought to you by It Was Supposed To Be Much Shorter Than It Was, heh.
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