Rosalie Dieteman
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Something cool I learned on YouTube (of all places):
@NamedByItaly
Diet is the old Germanic theod, meaning the people or the tribe — the same element in Dietrich and Dietmar. Add mann and you have man of the people. Most Alsatian Dietemans descend from a shortened baptismal name rather than a title. Fourteen hundreds fits exactly when surnames hardened there.
Something cool I learned on YouTube (of all places):
@NamedByItaly
Diet is the old Germanic theod, meaning the people or the tribe — the same element in Dietrich and Dietmar. Add mann and you have man of the people. Most Alsatian Dietemans descend from a shortened baptismal name rather than a title. Fourteen hundreds fits exactly when surnames hardened there.
