Glossary entry

Serbo-Croat term or phrase:

Dumovich

English translation:

of the Thinkers

Feb 13, 2006 06:06
18 yrs ago
Serbo-Croat term

Dumovich

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4 of the Thinkers

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of the Thinkers

Some dialects of Macedonian (a language closely related to Serbo-Croatian) - mostly in Southern Macedonia (now in Greece) - still use the archaic word "duma" (äóìà) which means thought/thinking. My guess is that the person that founded your family was a thinker, and maybe got a nick-name Duma, hence his family were called Dumovi (of the Duma), and later it changed to Dumovich. At least, that's a common etimology of surnames I met in Macedonia.
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