Sorry Switzerland, Genf is cultivated enough to be called Western Europe, but definitely not B🤢sel

by TheHessianHussar

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  2. As a fun fact one of the most common Spanish surnames, García is actually Basque/Pre Indo-European in origin: either gaztea (young) or hartz-ia (son of the bear/strong as a bear) are considered the most plausible meanings according to specialists.

    Also, Jiménez, Velázquez/Velásquez, Ruiz are originally pre Indo-European.

  3. Germany and Finland have a high percentage proto-altaic surnames I think.

  4. João and Barry with the same proportion of Celtic names,

    Treaty of Windsor confirmed. 

  5. Yes, the surnames we’ve only had since Napoleon forced us to get them are definitely pre indo-european/basque

  6. I think that most Germanic surnames in Italy are from medieval Italian personal names that were ancient Lombard names.

    Like for example Garibaldi, that is the genitive of the Latin name Garibaldus from Lombard Garibald.

  7. Wait a minute percentages from Italy don’t add up

  8. Well, the portugueses surnames of animals, plants , places are what? Celtics? No idea

  11. Fun fact, the name Gomes/Gomez stems from the Gothic word Guma which means “man”. Hence it is a Germanic last name

  12. I read this as “all of the Nordics and eastern Europe is 100% pre-indo-european surnames”.

  13. That can’t be right for Germany. A sizeable percentage of surnames must be of Slavic origin. More than half of all place names in East Germany are Slavic for starters.

  15. ¿Latin/Germanic ratio is higher in France than España…?

  18. Damn, Germany was really close to achieving their goal, just 15% left. I guess it’s gonna be easier next time.

  21. How do you decide if a name like Johnson or Jones is Germanic or Semitic? It’s means son (Germanic) of John (Semitic).

  22. This is so false.

    There are so many Norman surnames in Ireland that they almost outweigh the Irish names, at least in the Norman stronghold counties like Galway etc.

  24. I have a fairly common portuguese surname, when I bring out to othwr portuguese the origins of the name, its like wtf am i talking about. its “Son of the Elf” so its pre-christian and Portuguese historical memory just got erased

  25. The most common origin of names of all western european states is missing. It’s like: most common language per us state (except english)

  26. Now this is a level of bullshit I’ve not seen in a while

  28. what is the source of this? I assume we have a lot in common with Deutschland.. Smit, bakker, Visser, Bouwer, Meijer, Klein, Hofman, Dekker. I mean we have a lot of ‘van’ and ‘de’ and a lot of Jansen, Peters, Klaasen, but somehow I dont believe this map. Except for the excellent math, of course.

  30. No way that is true for Germany. There are so many germanfied Slavic surnames

  33. Don’t ask why Spain and Germany don’t have Semitic surnames

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