Or language group - Indo-European (and various subareas - Romance, Germanic, and I'm afraid I don't know what groupings the Hindi or Farsi lanaguages would be in) vs. Finno-Urgic - and whether this then extends to just 'Western' languages or if it holds for others.
I'll ask a Hungarian friend if it's common there, and see if any Dutch/Norwegian/Svensk folks have any idea about it.
Norwegian friend reports that he's never seen a color used as a last name ALONE, followed by a discussion of 'Brunes' and whether that's really a color or not (: ('Brown' 'small peninsula' (which I am thinking there is a Finnish word 'lahti' which works here but not an English word.))
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Date: 2007-07-01 05:31 pm (UTC)I'll ask a Hungarian friend if it's common there, and see if any Dutch/Norwegian/Svensk folks have any idea about it.
Norwegian friend reports that he's never seen a color used as a last name ALONE, followed by a discussion of 'Brunes' and whether that's really a color or not (: ('Brown' 'small peninsula' (which I am thinking there is a Finnish word 'lahti' which works here but not an English word.))