Given names often turned into family names when people were identified by their father's name. For example, the first name Ahrend developed into the family name Ahrends by adding a genitive s-ending, as in Ahrend's son. Examples: Ahrends, Burkhard, Wulff, Friedrich, Benz.
crouching involves lowering the head and shoulders. Please explain in detail how one does this as you see it, including what is happening to the knees and hips. --Penbat (talk) 20:50, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
verb (used without object) 1. to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk. 2. to carry the head and shoulders habitually bowed forward: to stoop from age. 3. (of trees, precipices, etc.) to bend, bow, or lean.