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Brokūnas

BROKŪNAS

Etymology

If the gender used by people is the real one, then perhaps from German. Brackhahn ¹. The official gender Brokūnas would then be a substitution, arising from other derivatives of the patronymic suffix -ūnas.

Feminine FORMS

Brokūnienė / Brokūnaitė

Pronunciation

/broːkuːnɐs/

SOURCES

1. M. Gottschald, 1954, p. 204.