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▲ wongarsu 5 hours ago

[resource]+[mountain/stone/field/valley/tree] in German is a very common pattern for Jewish surnames. A quirk of how surnames were adopted in German-speaking regions in the 18th century

Sugar mountain at least makes sense, unlike e.g. wine stone

▲pndy 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> wine stone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_bitartrate

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