Släkthistoria för Laska
Laska Vad efternamn betyder
Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) (also Łaska): from the Polish word łaska ‘grace favor’ or possibly from a homonym meaning ‘weasel’. As a Polish name this is a nickname; as a Jewish name it is generally artificial. Polish: from laska ‘stick walking stick’ a nickname for a tall thin man. Czech and Slovak (Láska): nickname or status name based on láska ‘love’ denoting a person who took on some burden such as serfdom ‘out of love’ i.e. voluntarily. Czech (Moravian; Laška): from a pet form of the personal name Ladislav (see Lada ). Hungarian: from laska ‘pastry’ probably a metathesized form of Slovak lokša or Ukrainian lóksa hence a metonymic occupational name for a pastry cook. In Hungarian laska also denotes a type of mushroom and in some cases the surname may have arisen as a nickname from this sense.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
