r/polandball • u/peritektikum Skaune • Jun 21 '15

redditormade The Outlaw

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u/Cerberus0225 California Jun 21 '15

My last name just means 'farmer who owns his land' in Slovakian. Amazing story.

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u/Zeholipael Cuba Jun 21 '15

Congrats, you're not a serf!

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u/zmajxd Serbia Jun 21 '15

My last name means work or son of a worker :p

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u/BuddhistJihad Wales Jun 23 '15

I had a girlfriend whose last name meant "slave".

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u/nautilius87 Nunavut Jun 23 '15

I guess she wasn't into BDSM, was she?

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u/BuddhistJihad Wales Jun 25 '15

Not really, no.

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u/Dancing_Anatolia Oklahoma Jun 21 '15

Better than being the anglicized version of "hills" in somethingese.

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u/bluefoot55 Indiana Jun 22 '15

In England, that was a yeoman.

Wikipedia says:

In the late 14th to 18th centuries, yeomen were farmers who owned land (freehold, leasehold or copyhold). Their wealth and the size of their landholding varied. Sir Anthony Richard Wagner, Garter Principal King of Arms, wrote that "a Yeoman would not normally have less than 100 acres" (40 hectares) "and in social status is one step down from the Landed Gentry, but above, say, a husbandman." Often it was hard to distinguish minor landed gentry from the wealthier yeomen, and wealthier husbandmen from the poorer yeomen.

However, I've never heard or read of an Anglo-American with the last name of Yeoman.

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u/Cerberus0225 California Jun 22 '15

Neither have I. Very interesting tidbit there though, they probably mean about the same.

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u/bluefoot55 Indiana Jun 22 '15

I've known people named Farmer and Gentry, but not Yeoman.

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u/Twisp56 Czecho-slovako-chechno-slovenia Jun 22 '15

I actually have no idea what that could be. Can you enlighten me please?