The laska Surname
laska Name Meaning and History
- Polish (also Laska) and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from Polish laska, ‘grace’, ‘favor’, or from a homonym meaning ‘weasel’. As a Polish name, this is a nickname; as a Jewish name it is generally ornamental.
- Polish: from laska ‘stick’, ‘walking stick’, metaphorically a nickname for a tall, thin man.
- Czech (Moravian; Laška): from a pet form of Lád, a short form of the personal name (V)ladislav (see Laszlo).
- Czech and Slovak (Láska): nickname from láska ‘love’.
- Hungarian: from the Slavic loanword laska ‘pastry’ (probably a metathesized form of Slovak lokša or Ukrainian lóksa), hence a metonymic occupational name for a pastry cook. In Hungarian laska also denotes a type of mushroom, and in some cases the surname may have arisen as a nickname from this sense.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Laska Family | Ray and Karen Haney | 30 |
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| Obit: Sylvester Laska of Nebraska (1923-2006) |
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| FAMILY TREE IN MINNESOTA | SUSAN LASKA | 13 |
| Laska from Autischkau, Silesia | Brigitte Clark | 4 |
| Finding Relatives of Laska | Joseph E. Laska Jr. | 2 |
| Anna Laska | Kristi | 1 |
| Re: Laska from Winona, Minnesota | Carl P. Laska | 7 |
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| LASKA/WOIDA connection |
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