Given name & surname

Yake

Yake is a surname, probably from German.

Original GermanJach

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Yake probably comes from German.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In English usage, Yake as a surname developed from Jach.

Yake’s family of names

In English usage, Yake as a surname developed from the German form Jach.

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The ring: across languages.

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Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Biblical Hebrew · Biblical

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German

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Sibling ideas

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