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  • Czech and Slovak, Croatian and Serbian, Slovenian, Hungarian (Novák), and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from Slavic novy ‘new’, denoting a newcomer to a place. Compare English Newman.
  • Slovenian : also a topographic name for a peasant who settled on newly cleared land.