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Post by Tonkin on Dec 3, 2010 20:17:15 GMT -5
I thought you would have come up with something a little more creative Tony. But thanks anyway. And thanks for looking Lamorna.
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Post by tonymitch on Dec 4, 2010 7:00:59 GMT -5
The jury is still out, but I too can only find the diminutive Anthony, but watch this space.
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Post by tonymitch on Dec 4, 2010 11:30:30 GMT -5
OK definition......'KIN' is the diminutive part of the word Hopkin Watkin Jenkin and even Munchkin. In German it's 'chen' e.g. Eichornchen meaning squirrel. So...Tonkin = "Little 'Ton'" = and that's definite, or my name isn't TON -y. (Diminutive of Anthony) Tony M
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2010 14:15:43 GMT -5
Well tonymitch you've made me grin with all that. ;D Certainly deserves a
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Post by Cornish Terrier on Dec 4, 2010 15:19:39 GMT -5
This looks like a fun game den! kin = diminutive ton = an old measure of weight TON-kin = a LITTLE HEAVY! Ooooh (hee, hee) he's fallen in da warta!
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Post by Tonkin on Dec 6, 2010 10:57:11 GMT -5
Looks like the Jury is " HUNG" Not ANTHONY again and a LITTLE HEAVY ... I'm off to the shearing shed - can't see for the wool over my eyes
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Post by tonymitch on Dec 6, 2010 20:32:29 GMT -5
Further etymological research. There was a Westphalian artist/poet/folksinger named Tons Vormann. His first name being Anton but abreviated in Westphalian dialect, Plattdeutsch, to Tons. There is a Plattdeutsch poem by Augustin Wibbelt about a frog. "Boekskin sit in Sonnenscheen" Boekskin = frog. Note the diminutive "kin". My research therefore shows that Tonkin not only means Little Anton, but it is Plattdeutsch and of Westphalian not Cornish origin. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Tonkin on Dec 7, 2010 1:54:02 GMT -5
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Post by Tonkin on Dec 13, 2010 20:45:12 GMT -5
Thanks Mike ... I needed that. Don't know where my clan originated from now. I will just have to live with it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2011 0:38:40 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2011 12:53:22 GMT -5
Speaking of foreign, we must remember the Romans controlled most of 'Britannia' from AD 43 to 410. I have no doubt their influence on 'Dumnonii' was more than gathering Cornish Tin! Dumnoii was Cornwall, Devon and parts of West Somerset ... the Cornish-Britain's (Cornovii) call there bit of the world - 'Kernow'. The Celtic word 'Corn (horn) and the suffix 'wealas' (In Anglo-Saxon meant "Foreigner").
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Post by tonymitch on Jan 20, 2011 19:30:52 GMT -5
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Post by londoner on Jan 21, 2011 5:19:54 GMT -5
Aren't we all? ;D
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Post by Tonkin on Jan 21, 2011 22:10:47 GMT -5
Worthy of Praise...... ...... Yes - I can live with that. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2011 23:23:45 GMT -5
Another bit of trivia: The Lexicon cornu-britannicum: Tonacombe = Tony's vale or farm. Tonkin is nothing more than a dim. of Tony! Tonsen=Tony's son, Tony (n) from Anthony. It could well be the name of TONKIN is also ANTHONY. ie: Mark Anthony. Again the Roman milkman enters the picture.
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