Hesse name suffix help

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I am still in Gedern (Hesse) and still speak no German! I am looking for some help on surname suffixes. I am trying to find the six children of Johannes Lambmann, but my problem is that there are three Johannes Lambmanns having children then, and even one Johannes Landmann!
Anyway, I have one record for my guy for a daughter Anna Kunigunda born in 1811 and it looks like there might be a suffix for him -- Johannes Lambman des langen -- http://www.archion.de/p/08c7629de0/
Is this a suffix? Does it translate as "the long" and perhaps means he was tall? Any suggestions would be most welcome!
Thanks in advance!
Donna Hay
Los Angeles
 
A suffix is: a morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative.

That said, what you find here is definitely no suffix, sorry.

As you figured it‘s an additional description for a person/subject in order to help to differentiate him from others.

German: lang = English: tall

BR, Vera
 
...a little addition because you‘re used to the fixed term „name suffix“, right?

...this may indeed be used in this particular case here as well.

Vera

 
much thanks to you both for taking the time to offer your opinions. One last question -- in other places in Europe (specifically England/Scotland) the suffix could be ironic -- in other words, they would call him tall because he was short. Do you know if this was a possibility at this time (circa 1700) in Germany?
 
There's always such a possibility -regardless of the time- allover the world.

However, would you really take such more or less vague possibility into serious account in official, legal records or registers?

BG, Vera
 
good point. yes, I take it at face value and assume he was tall.
thanks so much for all your input, it is much appreciated.
 
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