Do you know what the last name Kinscherff means. What background in ethnicity is it?

Question

Do you know what the last name Kinscherff means. What background in ethnicity is it?

Answer 1

Kin is a Germanic/Teutonic prefix (as in "kinder", which means children).

Sch and a double f ending, are also specific to Germanic/Teutonic vocabularies.

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"Was bedeutet 'Kinscherff', bitte?

This means, what does Kinscherff mean, please?

Peace

Answer 2

Scherff: German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German, Middle Low German scherf, a coin worth half a penny, possibly applied as a nickname for a poor person.

German: nickname from Middle High German scharpf, scherf ‘sharp’, ‘rough’, ‘eager’.

German: habitational name from places in the Rhineland named Scherf, or from Scherfede near Warburg