English Explanatory Dictionary

Kasch

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from German.

Word forms

Kasch Kasches

Etymology

* As a German surname, variant of Karsch, from Middle Low German karsch (“merry, lively”), a scant attested Germanic word related to Old Norse karskr (“agile, fresh”), derived by Pokorny from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ger- (“to awake”), see also Ancient Greek ἐγείρω (egeírō), Albanian ngre. * As a Lower Sorbian surname, Germanized from Kaš, shortened from Łukaš (see Lukas).

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