Zalewski Surname Info

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Variations: Zalasa, Zalasik
 
Variations: Zalasa, Zalasik
 
Cognates: Czech: Zálesky; Jewish: (E Ashkenazic) Zalesky
 
Cognates: Czech: Zálesky; Jewish: (E Ashkenazic) Zalesky
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Topographic Names: It had already been mentioned that topographic names are those that refer to physical features such as trees, forests, hills, streams, and marshes, as well as to man-made structures such as churches, city walls, and castles.
 
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Surnames derived from the proper names of geographical features such as rivers have also been classed here as topographic rather than habitation names, since they refer to a geographic location rather than a particular named settlement .
 
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Some surnames that are ostensibly topographic, such as Hall and Monkhouse, are in fact occupational, for they originally denoted someone who was employed at such a place: for example, at a great house or monastery.
 

Revision as of 14:11, 1 March 2006

ZALEWSKI - Polish - topographic name for someone who lived by a flood plain or bay, Pol. zalew, or habitation name from a place named with this element, with the addition of -ski, suffix of local surnames. There has been considerable confusion with Zaleski. Cognate: Jewish (E Ashkenazic) Zalewsky

ZALESKI - Polish - topographic name for someone who lived ‘on the other side of the wood’, from Pol. za beyond + les, las wood, with the addition of -ski, suffix of local surnames, or habitation name from a place, Zalesie, named with the elements za + les.

var of Zalewski Variations: Zalasa, Zalasik Cognates: Czech: Zálesky; Jewish: (E Ashkenazic) Zalesky

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