Talk:Gołach

anyone reading this just as curious as i am where our surname comes from ? its extremely rare.


 * Not an expert but if I had to guess, I'd say it's likely a nickname for a bald or poor person, from the adjective goły. This adjective is probably also the root of the surname . There were 1489 people with the surname Gołaś, and 81 with the surname Gołach, living in Poland in the early 1990s:

http://web.archive.org/web/20160823042258/http://www.futrega.org/etc/nazwiska.html


 * -ś is one of several different suffixes which may be used to create nicknames (see for example Jaś, a nickname formed from Jan.)


 * -ch is also sometimes used, though it's not as common in modern Polish. You can find more info about this suffix in the following book, pages 259 to 263

https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJudCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA260

Hergilei (talk) 21:50, 1 May 2020 (UTC)