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Origin of Andes Total Records: 1  Origin of Andes, Meaning of Andes Origin: Yantis and it's variants, Gentess Gentiss Yandes, were almost all originally spelled Gentes, but pronounced as beginning with a "Y". After much research with ancient French, it turns out that Gentes had an an alternative spelling at one time, Jantes. Since the Alsace-Lorraine where the family was once owned by France and Germany, it seems likely that it comes from Schweisserdeutch, an Alsatian dialect. The German pronunciation for "J" would be "Y". It is not hard to conceive a middleground for the "G" to be pronounced as a "Y". Gentes was used interchangeably with the word sauvage, as it stems from the latin word gentis, to mean a non-Roman (i.e., Gentium, peoples of the world). Another more familiar derivative is genus, meaning race. Hence, Yantis means savage, or common people Surnames: Yantis Yantes Gentes Gentess Gentiss Yandes Yandess Submitted by: John Yantis 2/17/2012 9:16 AM Page 1 of 1

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