Replying to Avatar ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ

yes, the double N is not part of it, but that's not a common construct in russian, yes, it exists, but no it's not that common

in dutch, however, the phonetic rules state that you have to double a consonant to "close" a syllable, and there is other similar rules about doubling vowels to indicate an accent or long vowel form

many people in the netherlands adopted "funny" names, one i encountered while i lived there was "diepenbrook" - brook means "pants" and "diepen" is the adjective meaning "deep" ... there is NO way the originator of that name was not having a laff at the dutch government with that one back in the 1700s
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

my opa did quite a bit of research and wrote a little leaflet about the history of the family name and the conclusion was he had no evidence about where it came from exactly, and the scuttlebutt in the family was that there was a connection to some kind of disgrace involving dutch aristocracy and the Buys (like Boise) family

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

also, i wouldn't be surprised if it is not in fact from russia today russia but it is even possible it's Russene, the landless ethnic group found across northern serbia and romania, their form of russian is archaic russian, not revised like the modern russian as so many governments did all across europe "standardising" the languages