sábado, 21 de abril de 2012

THE MEANING OF SURNAME KIELTYKA






Many sites show exatly this:
 
Polish (Kiełtyka): nickname for Polish dialect kiełtyka ‘swinger’, probably with reference to a peculiarity of gait.

Kiełtyka  - w grupie nazwisk pochodzących od kiełtać, kiełdać (się) 'chwiać się'; od gwarowego kiełtyka 'człowiek kołyszący się'. 
Kiełtyka  - a group of names derived from kiełtać, kiełdać (a) 'wobble', from dialectical Kiełtyka 'man swinging'.
-http://www.genealogia.okiem.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3098&start=680


But, there are others source of informations:
 
You printed a letter and your reply, to someone re: the name "Kielton", and your response included reference to the name "Kieltyka". That is my mother's maiden name... If I understand correctly, that you are able to provide the derivation of the name, and location where it originated, I would be very interested.
Polish name expert Prof. Kazimierz Rymut mentions Kiełtyka in his book on Polish surname (on-line we use ł to stand for the Polish l with a slash through it, pronounced like our w but usually just rendered as plain old l in other languages). He says it comes from the root kiełtać, "to cut with a dull knife." I'm not sure how this got to be a person's name, and apparently that root is either quite archaic or else used only in dialect, because it doesn't appear in any of my other sources -- but I've found Rymut usually knows his stuff, so I'm inclined to believe him on this one... This name shows up in Krakow legal records as far back as 1382. It's odd that this root kiełt- generated only this one, rather ancient surname, and otherwise has left no trace in the language; but that's the kind of odd quirk that makes name origins so interesting!
As of 1990 there were 1,518 Polish citizens named Kiełtyka, living in virtually every province of Poland (there may well be more by that name living in Ukraine, but I have no data on that). The provinces with the largest numbers were: Katowice 233, Krakow 155, Krosno 133, and Tarnow 118 -- all in southcentral or southeastern Poland. Przemysl province, which is where Wyszatyce is located, had 46. However, the database from which this info was compiled was lacking complete data for some provinces, including Przemysl, so the actual number might be somewhat higher... The source of this data is a government database, but the book I got it from only has totals for all of Poland, then for each province. In other words, I don't have access to further details such as first names or addresses; the Polish government agency that runs that database won't allow researchers access to such info. So what I've given you here is all I can get.


Last name: Kielt

This most interesting surname is of Scottish origin, and is a locational name from the lands of Kelt, near Denny, in Stirling in Scotland. This placename may have derived from the Old Norse word "keld", a spring, also found in "Threlkeld". In some instances, the name may be of German origin, deriving from the Germanic "Kelt", Celt, a nickname given to a Celt. The surname is also found as Kelt, Keld and Kield in the modern idiom. The first recorded namebearer (see below) witnessed a lease by Alexander, commentator of Inchaffray in 1521, and is witnessed to another lease by Gauine, Archbishop of Glasgow in 1544, according to the "Charters Bulls and other Documents relating to the Abbey of Inchaffray". Jane Keld married Edward Harman on November 4th, 1599 at the Church of St. Dionis, Backchurch, London. Maria Lisabeth Kielt married Detrich Groene on October 17th 1693 at Falkenhagen, Lippe (Germany). One Robert Keld appears in Dunblane in 1669, while Janet Kelt is recorded in Whitefield in 1744, both in Scotland. Hugh Kielt married Mary McBride on October 29th 1861 at Shettleston, Lanark. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Vilelmus Keth, which was dated 1521, The Charters, Bulls and other Documents relating to the Abbey of Inchaffray, during the reign of King James V, Ruler of Scotland, 1513 - 1542. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

Read more: http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Kielt#ixzz1qpr3l62Z



-KIEL  :
 is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 238,049 (2010).
In germany: "Keel"  (A structure, such as the breastbone of a bird, that resembles a ship's keel in function or shape).




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I would like to mention what our friend from Poland, but lives in UK today, Magdalena Kieltyka, wrote about: 
The link that you gave me- with the surname meaning and origin- I must say really surprised me. Actually, the word 'Kieltyka' doesn't mean anything in Polish (it's like the surname Smith in English- doesn't mean anything, it's just a surname). They say on that website that 'kieltyka' means 'swinger', but it doesn't really- it's not even close. I'm not sure where they got that meaning from but I've never heard anything like that.



My conclusion is that the true meaning of our surname is not too important. We wanna just find the origin of it. But as the same way of many others surnames that have lost its meaning so it happened with ours.  Neil Young is not so 'young' now, surely not much people are really 'Brown', or 'Taylor", "Walker"  or " king, or green or hill, etc.


Of course, the weight of surname, and its reputation, is another thing, that we must preserve, defend, and maintain respectable and clean. 


Nilson Fernando Kieuteka

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