Granat

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6/30/2021 at 5:31 PM

Swedish: soldier’s name from Granat ‘grenade’, ‘shell’. Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from Granat meaning ‘pomegranate’ in Polish and ‘garnet’ in Yiddish; a nickname in Polish and an ornamental name in Yiddish. Southern French: from Old French Granat, originally ‘pomegranate’, later ‘garnet’ and hence a metonymic occupational name for a jeweler or dealer in semi-precious stones. French: from the past participle of Grana ‘to provide with seeds’; an indirect occupational name for a prosperous farmer.

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6/30/2021 at 5:53 PM

Also add: GRANAT coming from Granada in Spain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granada

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6/30/2021 at 6:10 PM

and here: https://www.geni.com/projects/Emirate-of-Granada/4191

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7/3/2021 at 3:40 PM

please remember that tradition (MINHAG) was very important for many years, so if a family has an Ashkenazy tradition such as prayer books, not eating KITNIOT during Passover ets, for those families that came from countries such as Poland, no reason to believe they were Sephardi and changed all tradition for no good enough reason

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7/3/2021 at 3:41 PM

Even the first names (in Yiddish or other languages) can show the tradition

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