- Giarelli
Giarelli is a italian surname of the
Valle Camonica ,Lombardy A long presence of the Giarelli family is attested in
Nadro of Ceto sinceXVI century , although the last name is original of the town ofCimbergo . Another bow of the family is present toMassa Carrara , perhaps in relation with ancient migrations of stone cutters, while other branches of the family are present inHonduras ,Argentina ,andUnited States . InFrance the surname has assumed the mutation in "Gerelli".The meaning of the name has various interpretations:
* it could derive from the activity of making potters (giare, in italian);
* according to Franco Bontempi it would derive from the root *werra, war, from which they could be assumed that the members of this family were members of the guard of the castle ofCimbergo [ Franco Bontempi, Storia di Cimbergo, Darfo Boario Terme, 2004, pg. 270] ;
* others interpretation suggest that the last name it would derive from the dialectal term being to indicate the gravel ("géra", incamunian dialect ). This solution is perhaps most probable, date the numerous presence ofcalchere to the feet of thePizzo Badile Camuno .In the flat field of the country of Nadro there is the "Giarelli locality", that it takes the name of the ancient house of the family, constructed in the 1905, first stable built in the area.
This toponymy appears in the dictionary of "toponomastica bresciana " of Gnaga (1937) that tells about a place called "Giarei" (“the Giarelli” in
camunian dialect ) to north ofLosine , that isNadro . [Si riporta:GIARO: casa a NE di Losine, presso la d. dell'Oglio. Sospetto che il toponimo sia Giara, sinonimo di géra, anche perché non molto distante trovasi un luogo detto i Giarei Arnaldo Gnaga. Vocabolario topografico-toponomastico della provincia di Brescia. Brescia, 1937. 290]Notes
=External links=
* [http://digilander.iol.it/giarelli/index.html Official site of the familySito ufficiale della famiglia]
* [http://www.ancestry.it Genealogic tree]
* [http://www.gerelli.org. French site about Gerelli]
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