>>698543 (last bread)
>short "Sozis
German use the i at the end to show an abbreviation/ or a cooloquial plural form of a term.
For example, Professional players are Profis. The old Est German car, the Trabant, is a Trabi
Ashkenaz is an older (at least middle ages) description of the people/merchants who settled along the middle Rhine Area. Could mean 'out there in the territories" or the barbarian regions in some mid-east dialect.
Ashkenazi genome studies point to a small number of individuals (c300) who have 50/50 mid-european/mideast DNA. There was an Ashkenaz people in upper Iraq (I think) and perhaps an Ashkenaz area in mid to west Turkey. Possible that emigrants from those areas relocated to mid-Rhine. They were known as good merchants because of connections back to mid-east for goods.