Given name & surname · also Old Czech
Němec
“foreigner, German”
Němec is a surname from Old Czech, ultimately from Proto-Slavic. It is used in Czech.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Němec goes back to Proto-Slavic *němьcь, meaning “foreigner, German.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Němec comes from Old Czech, and ultimately from Proto-Slavic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Czech Němec, from Proto-Slavic *němьcь (“foreigner, German”), built from Czech němý (“mute”) + -ec.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Němec’s family of names
In Czech usage, Němec as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Hungarian form Németh.
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Across languages 2
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