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-An expert Prof. Kazimierz Rymut mentions this name in his book Nazwiska Polaków [The Surnames of Poles]. That it might from basic root seen in the verb drapać, "“to scratch, scrape, scamper away, climb up, clamber," and in the dialect term drapa, "claw." The ending -ski is just a basic adjectival ending, so that X-ski means "the X guy, the guy associated with X in some way." The endings -al and -ala and -ała typically indicate an association with the action or feature of the main root. So X-alski usually means "kin of the guy always doing X, kin of the X guy," or possibly, in some cases, indicating a connection with a place that had a name in the form Drapal-. - Maybe DRAPALSKI started out as a nickname for an ancestor who was always scratching or scraping or scampering away. His work might have involved scraping away objects, or teasing wool, or something along those lines. or instance. - there's a forest settlement called Drapałka, not far from Poznań in western Poland -- and DRAPALSKI could, in a given case, just mean "one from Drapałka." |