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From: David Zincavage <>
Subject: [LITHUANIA-L] Surname "Yukmont"
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 14:31:55 -0400 (EDT)


That is one of the most awful anglicized garblings I've see. A number of
very old, noble Lithuanian surnames end in -mantis (-mont, in Polish
versions), from _sumantis_ "wisdom," "sagacity." I cannot think of any
plausible JUK- roots, or find any such surnames in my references.

JAUKANTAS/JOKANTAS/JOKUNTAS might have been the source. Another ancient
pagan Lithuanian surname, roots: _jaunus_- "young" [as in Jogailo], +
_pakantus_ "tolerant," "patient," "enduring."

> I am also
> > trying to help locate any information for a cousin of my husband's.
>Her > grandfather's
> > name was Napoleon Yukmont. If that name sounds familiar to anyone,
>please > write & I will give you her snail mail address as she isn't
>on line at this > time.
> >
> > Jean (Bukoveckas) Ahearn
> >
> >
> Jean,
> I am also researching a family with a name that sounds very similar to
> YUKMONT; it is so close that I wonder if it couldn't be the same family
> with a varied spelling, as so often happens. The family name is
>YUKNOT, I believe, although I don't have the records right here. It
>is a family that has married into my husband's German/Lithuanian
>family and the last we knew of them they were in the state of CT.
>Some members of the family still communicate with us.
> Could you please contact me and we can share information if this looks
> like a possible match?
> I am sending this to the list in case there are others who are
> interested in the same name, so that we could communicate with them as
> well.
> Janet
>
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