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  Sypniewski Coat of Arms / Sypniewski Family CrestThe associated coat of arms for this name are recorded in J.B Rietstaps Armorial General. Illustrated by V & H.V Rolland's. This Monumental work took 23 years to complete and 85,000 coats of Arms are included in this work. This surname of SYPNIEWSKI is of various origins. It was a Polish habitation name from a place named SYPNIEWO, from the Polish word SYPN (an embankment or dyke) + SKI. The suffix SKI is also found as an ending of Russian surnames, but these are usually of Polish origin. It was also used by Ashkenazic Jews. By the time most Jewish people on Polish territory were acquiring family names in the late 18th and 19th centuries, it was already widely used as a general surname suffix. The name was also derived from the old Czech word SIP (arrow) and was perhaps applied as a nickname for a thin man or a swift runner, or as a metonymic occupational name for an archer. Warriors needed weapons during the Middle Ages, and since the bow and arrow were supreme during this time many were engaged in producing or using them as weapons of war. They were considered to be highly skilled craftsmen. The modern state of Czechoslovakia is going through a transitional phase as a result of the fall of the Iron Curtain. Its various regions encompassed the medieval provinces of Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia. The first two of these, where the language properly called Czech is spoken, were heavily subject to German cultural and linguistic influence from the Middle Ages onwards, being administratively a Crownland of Austria for much of the time until independence in 1918. This influence is reflected in the many Czech surnames derived from German, both from given names, and from vocabulary words. Occupational names are quite common in Czech as are nicknames, especially those referring to some physical feature. Many of the most common Czech surnames have the diminutive ending 'CEK', which is often found attached to these names. |
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