English Explanatory Dictionary

Rusch

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

Rusch Rusches

Etymology

* As a German surname, from Middle Low German rusch (“rushes, reeds”), from Old Saxon rusk, from Proto-West Germanic *ruskijā. Compare Ruesch. * Also as a German surname Rüsch, shortened from names derived from Old High German hrōd (“fame”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrōþi. * As a north/Low German surname, from Middle Low German rusch (“quick, hasty, rash”), compare *hurskaz. * Germanized from Lower Sorbian Roš, see Rosch. Compare Rush.

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