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Interesting. So my grandmother's maiden name "wrzesień" has a meaning beyond "September" (according to Polish-English translations)?

I don't know for a fact it had the accent over the last letter. Records here in the US exclude it, of course that hardly means it wasn't there originally.

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wrzos (heather) is a plant that blooms in early autumn, hence the name wrzesień.

Also it's not accent, it's softening of the n sound, similar to Spanish n with ~.

Yes I should have said, "diacritic"

The word is derived from "wrzos" = heather.

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