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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Austrian) : status name for a feudal tenant whose land lay on sloping ground, from Middle High German lēgen (southern dialect variant of lēhen ‘to hold land as a feudal tenant’) + līte ‘slope’. Compare Legner, Lechner.

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