Lubeck

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A town in the Shire of Northern Grampians and the Shire of Yarriambiack, central western Victoria, Australia.

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baltic port citycultural sitehanseatic cityheritage sitehistoric citymedieval city

Etymology

* As a Dutch and North/Low German surname, from the city of Lübeck in Schleswig-Holstein. * As a Slovak surname, from Ľubek, pet form of various names like Ľubomir formed from ľúbiť (“to love”). Similarly also from Polabian Liubice (“lovely”), cognate with Polish luby + -ica.

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