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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Tur

Anyone know the origin of that? It's one I've not run across before.

11 posted on 01/21/2015 4:42:58 PM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35
Anyone know the origin of that? It's one I've not run across before.

Prussian.
In German, it means door.
Die Tür = The door.

Also the name of a city, now in Poland. Tur.

Was Prussia, then Germany, now Poland.

Lots of people have the name of the town their ancestors hailed from.

14 posted on 01/21/2015 4:49:16 PM PST by Bon mots (American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
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16 posted on 01/21/2015 4:51:23 PM PST by Bon mots (American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
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