Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname.
* As a German, Polish, and Jewish surname, from Yiddish and German Karpfen (“carp”). * As a German, Polish, and Russian surname, reduced from the Koine Greek saint names Καρπόφορος (Karpóphoros, “fruit-bearing”) and Πολύκαρπος (Polúkarpos, “rich in fruit”), from πολυ- (polu-) + καρπός (karpós).
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- Derivation mentionKarpfende · carp
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