Re: Surname Gad

Elzbieta Porteneuve — Mon Jul 13, 2015 2:18 am

Author: Elzbieta Porteneuve

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 2:18 am

PolishFrenchIrish wrote:

Curious about the surname Gad, my dzadziu. He says he grew up near the border of the Ukraine. He has white blond hair and probably one of the strongest men you'll ever meet. But he was detained in Auschwitz during WWII and tatooed. My Jewish friends say it's the last tribe of Israel. But they are Catholic, building shrines to JPII (who looks exactly like my dzadziu).

Why cant I find any information about Gad as a Polish last name??

Hi PolishFrenchIrish,

Gad – gadać, gadu-gadu

Gadać means chat, it is a nice word, chodź pogadać = let’s chat
gaduła, bavard (French), chatterbox or prater (English)

We have a very popular software in Poland, now 15 years old, called gadu-gadu, excellent instant messaging
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadu-Gadu

Gady (plural of gad) means also small animals on a farm, I recall a saying “musze dac gadom” in the sense I must feed poultry (on a farm)

Another meaning is gad = reptile animal (cold-blooded animal), and by extension figuratively someone you are afraid of
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gady

There is a number of people with the name Gad in Poland:
https://nazwiska-polskie.pl/Gad

Stankiewicze gives an etymology
http://www.stankiewicze.com/index.php?kat=44&sub=537
Gad - 1609 od gadać ‘mówić’ lub od gad ‘zwierzę zimnokrwiste’, przenosnie ‘człowiek nikczemny’

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Re: Surdyn - few names in Poland
https://nazwiska-polskie.pl/Surdyn

Stankiewicze gives an etymology
http://www.stankiewicze.com/index.php?kat=44&sub=827
Surdyn - od dawnego siurdać, szurdać ‘dąsać się’, od łacińskiego surdus ‘głuchy’.

dąsać się, bouder (French), sulk (English)
głuchy, sourd (French), deaf (English)

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Best,
Elzbieta

Surname Gad

PolishFrenchIrish — Sun Jul 12, 2015 9:13 pm

Author: PolishFrenchIrish

Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 9:13 pm

Curious about the surname Gad, my dzadziu. He says he grew up near the border of the Ukraine. He has white blond hair and probably one of the strongest men you'll ever meet. But he was detained in Auschwitz during WWII and tatooed. My Jewish friends say it's the last tribe of Israel. But they are Catholic, building shrines to JPII (who looks exactly like my dzadziu).

Why cant I find any information about Gad as a Polish last name??

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