Whence the Name "KUMIS" ?

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Good idea. Troutville was named after the Trout family. There are no trout  
streams here!
 
Thanks,
 
Richard D. Shell
Troutville, VA
 
 
In a message dated 2/22/2012 3:19:49 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

A quick  Internet search turned up 4 people with a surname of Kumis.  Not  
exactly common, but it is used. So I wouldn't discard that as a possible  
source.

You could check the Census records for the relevant time  period to see 
if there were any Kumis family members living in the  area.  It was not 
unusual to name places on the railroad after  families who lived nearby.

Ed


On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:40  PM, NW Mailing List wrote:


> Has anyone figured out how the  name "Kumis" came to be  used as a 

> station name on the  VGN?  MapQuest and Google Earth do not 

> recognize "Kumis" as  a geographical location.

>

>

> The word "kumis" is  apparently a Turkic or Mongol word referring to  a 

> fermented  product made from mare's milk  in the Central Asian Steppes, 

>  see:

>

>

>  http://thekefir.com/kumis/

>

>

> I have not been able to  nail down the root etymology of the word, as I 

> have no familiarity  with any Turkic or Altaic languages.

>

>

> I have never  heard "kumis" used as a family name and have not run 

> across the  word  in any of the non-railroad historical materials 

> dealing  with Roanoke or Montgomery Counties.  It would be interesting 

> to  check the 1898 USGS Topo maps and see if there was any use of that 

>  word as a word referencing places just prior to  the construction of  

> the Virginian Railway.  However, the USGS Topos for that period  do not 

> appear to have been digitized yet.

>

>

> So,  how did "Kumis" get to Roanoke County, Virginia...?

>

>

>  Sorry to play the part of the philologist... it's just  ingrained.

>

>

> -- abram burnett, transplanted  virginian domiciling in pennsyl-slavia

>  

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