Last name origins & meanings:
- German: apparently from the vocabulary word Abendrot(h)
‘sunset’, but in many if not all cases actually a folk-etymological
alteration of the habitational name Appenrodt or
Appenroth, from any of several places in northern Germany which
are so named from the personal name Aben + Middle German
rot ‘cleared land’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name
from German Abendroth ‘sunset’, literally ‘evening
red’. Compare Morgenstern.
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