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English word origin

Etymology of Mak

* As a Chinese surname, borrowed from Cantonese 麥/麦 (mak6). * As a Polish surname, borrowed from Polish Mak, or shortened from Polish Makary. * As a Ukrainian surname, shortened from Ukrainian Макар (Makar). * As a Hunga

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Unnumbered source etymology

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A surname from Chinese. · A surname from Polish. · A surname from Ukrainian. · A surname from Hungarian.

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* As a Chinese surname, borrowed from Cantonese 麥/麦 (mak6). * As a Polish surname, borrowed from Polish Mak, or shortened from Polish Makary. * As a Ukrainian surname, shortened from Ukrainian Макар (Makar). * As a Hungarian surname, shortened from Hungarian Makár.

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Imported from Wiktionary contributors; extracted by Tatu Ylonen / Wiktextract / Kaikki.org. Selected fields are reformatted and grouped; wording, source identity and etymology sections are retained. CC-BY-SA-4.0 applies to the imported source material.

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