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Hoffmann: 2 syllables · flowing. Root not confirmed — we say so. The letter F inside it: F, U, V, W and Y all descend from one Phoenician letter, waw.
We could not establish this root with confidence, and we will not invent one. The sound, though, says plenty.
2 syllables · flowing
Two syllables — step and answer. The steadiest rhythm there is: a heartbeat. It leaves on a held sound — the name does not break off, it dissolves. Held sounds dominate: it flows rather than strikes.
Inside this surname stands F. F, U, V, W and Y all descend from one Phoenician letter, waw. The whole story of this letter →
No shared root and no shared trade. What these do share is the sound: 2 syllables and the same hardness.
A way of being through duration: not a strike, a presence.
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