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- N, O, P -

Nagl - G nail
Nachtmann - G night watchman
Navratil - man who returned (to home)
Nejedly - out of taste; unpleasant man
Nekola - still resisting man
Nemec - man from Germany
Neubauer - G new incoming farmer (settler)
Neumann - G see Neubauer
Neuvirt - G see Neubauer
Novak - C new incoming farmer (settler)
Novy - C see Novak
Nyvlt - G locality name
(new world)
Obzina - achieve
Odehnal - man who defended himself
Opletal - enclose by fence
Otahal - man who hesitate
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Pabian - first name Fabian
Pantucek - C pantok = kind of axe; nickname of deaf man
Paroubek - C
paruba = meadow
Paukert - G drummer
Pazout - C faddish man
Pejsa - C first name Petr
Pekarek - C diminutive pekar = baker
Pilar - C saw-maker
Pluhar - C plow-maker; peasant
Pokorny - C patient
Polak - C man who came from Poland
Polcar - G first name Balthasar
Prachar - C gunpowder-maker
Preis - G valuable
Prochazka - C wandering journeyman

- R, S -

Rais - small tree branch
Randa - make noise
Rehor - Greek first name Gregorios

Reichel - rich
Rezek - red-haired man

Richter - mayor, judge
Riha - see Rehor
Roubal - man who hewed (trees)
Ruml - rush
Ruzicka - diminutive C ruze = rose
Rymes - G first name Raimund
Sadilek - man piquing himself
Sacher - G reed; pedlar
Safar - farm steward
Sauer - sour, acid
Sajfrt - G first name Siegfried
Schlegel - see Slegl
Schleiss - see Slais
Schmied - blacksmith
Schneider - see Snajdr

Schubert - see Subert
Schuster - shoemaker
Sedivy - grey
Semerad - C first name Semirad (active man)
Sima - C first name Simon
Slais - G Schleiss = xxx; thin man

Slegl - G heavy hammer
Smejkal - glide, jump
Smid - see Schmied
Smitzer - G leather dyer
Snajdr - tailor
Somr - G summer
Soucek - sparing man; diminutive of surname Suk
Soukup - merchant, matchmaker, witness
Stastny - happy
Stein - G stone
Stejskal - miss for somebody / something
Sterba - slit
Subert - shoemaker
Suchy - dry, thin
Suk - knag; healthy man
Suster - see Schuster
Svoboda - free / independent peasant / farm

- T, U -

Teply - warm
Tichy
- silent, quiet
Tlusty - fat, thick
Tregler - feed-through maker

Trojan - ancient first name
Tuma - C first name Tomas
Tvrdy - hard, tough
Urban,Urbanek - citizen, urbane