Meaning & origin
What it means
Weres goes back to Ukrainian верес, meaning “heather.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Weres’s family of names
In Polish usage, Weres as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Wrzos.
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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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