I learned last night that I may have a family legacy of town drunkards · 9:44pm Jan 1st, 2015
Masu = those square sake cups
Naga = long time
Masunaga = constantly drunk
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Masu = those square sake cups
Naga = long time
Masunaga = constantly drunk
I have a similar thing with my maiden name: Shoop. It comes from the word "chopine", which was a type of measure typically used for alcohol, like a pint glass. (This was on the French/German boarder-- on the French side the name became Chopin and related names, on the German side it became Shoupen, which eventually became Shoop and it's various spellings.)
Anyway, apparently the name could refer to the person who made the measures, but it's kind of more likely it was someone who drank a lot of alcohol in those measures.