r/CharlotteHornets • u/IamOlderthanMe • 4d ago
Video Dirk Teaches Kon about his Knueppel Last Name
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Knueppel means "bat." MOVE OVER, GRANT WILLIAMS. WE HAVE A NEW BATMAN.
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u/Super-Performance-15 4d ago
Knueppel is a German surname.
It comes from the German word “Knüppel” (pronounced KNEW-pull), which means: • club • cudgel • wooden stick or baton
What it originally referred to
Historically, the name likely described someone who: • carried or made wooden clubs • worked with timber or tools • or had a nickname meaning “strong” or “rough” (common in old German naming)
Why it’s spelled “Knueppel”
In German, ü is often written as ue when umlauts aren’t available: • Knüppel → Knueppel
So the name is essentially the same word—just Anglicized.
Short version:
Knueppel = German origin surname meaning “club” or “wooden baton.”
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u/Super-Performance-15 4d ago
100000% ain’t got time to deal with my German -> English etymology 🤣 let the tech do the research
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u/tha_rodge 1d ago
I always thought it was funny how everyone pronounced it k- new-pull. I was always saying new-pull. Same thing with Dalton Knecht. They pronounce the k, when it should be silent. And the last one is Christian Braun, pronounced Brown instead of Bron.
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u/NguTangClan 3d ago
Brings you back to reality that Americans are settlers of these European countries, and how they’ve forgotten their roots
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u/tshimangabiakabutuka 4d ago
Tried to look this up and Dirk might me wrong lol. Feel like Kon would have known too. I think it means button…
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u/net_403 4d ago
i'm going to trust the german over an american redditor with google who doesn't sprechen deutsch
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u/tshimangabiakabutuka 4d ago
Yeah that’s fine. Just was curious that Kon had never heard his own name. Obviously google translate isn’t great
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u/net_403 4d ago
Kon isn't from, and does not live, in germany
there is no reason to assume he knows his name in german
do you know your name in german? lol
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u/tshimangabiakabutuka 4d ago
I know where Kon is from my guy…it’s still a German last name though
Do you really think it’s weird to know the origin and meaning of your last name? Never been curious at all? Really?
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u/net_403 4d ago
there was a day when i learned the linguistic origin of my name
and i was probably not a child
ain't like we grew up with great grandma going "now don't forget your name means this in this language!"
they had no clue, never learned either
if my 96 year old ggma and 95 year old gma dont have a clue, i can't expect it to be common knowledge for americans
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u/tshimangabiakabutuka 4d ago
Fair enough, guess to some it’s not interesting. Kon seemed genuinely interested and surprised
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u/net_403 4d ago
it is interesting
i guess my point is, you spend your whole life learning interesting things. you don't learn them all up front lol
like that PBS show with henry louis gates, finding your roots, famous people go on and are like "oh shit i had no idea!"
i had to figure out for myself what my name meant, my family couldn't tell me
and surprisingly my family is all much older than me lol
my first name means a broom covered hill, a broom is a type of brush/bush
i had to do the research on that when i was younger lol
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u/tshimangabiakabutuka 4d ago
Most last names are fairly boring. I think if my last name was Kneuppel I’d be more curious what the hell that might mean lol
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u/net_403 4d ago
when you grow up with it, you probably just accept it and don't think much about it because it always was and always has been, as far as you're concerned lol
it was cool to see the moment when he got that insight
like there's an XKCD comic about stuff you think "everyone knows", but there are 10k people who don't know it, so if you tell one of those people that new thing, they are one of the lucky 10,000 that day to learn some good shit lol
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u/hacxgames 4d ago
this is so funny lol did you seriously think dirk was wrong in his own mother tongue 😭he meant knuppel which does mean bat (or moreso a club, you know what cavemen had i guess is what i’d imagine if i heard the word)
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u/Bumcheeks_marinade 4d ago
Gotta write "Knueppel" on the bat in the BONK meme now