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Scottish
Scottish : habitational name from a now forgotten place called Dundemore in Fife.English : habitational name from Dunsmoor in Devon or from an old district of Warwickshire called Dunsmore (preserved in Ryton-on-Dunsmore and Stretton-on-Dunsmore); both are named from the Old English personal name Dunn(a) ‘dark’ + mÅr ‘moor’.A Scottish family of this name was established in County Antrim, northern Ireland, in the early 17th century. From there they emigrated in 1723 to Londonderry, NH (now called Windham).
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Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gormáin and Ó Gormáin ‘son (or descendant) of Gormán’, a personal name from a diminutive of gorm ‘dark blue’, ‘noble’. Compare O’Gorman.English : from the Middle English personal name Gormund, Old English GÄrmund, composed of the elements gÄr ‘spear’ + mund ‘protection’.English : topographic name for someone who lived by or on a triangular patch of land (see Gore).German (Görmann) : variant of Gehrmann.German (Görmann) : of Slavic origin, occupational name for a miner, from Slavic góra ‘mountain’.
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English
English : from the Old Norse personal name EirÃkr, composed of the elements eir ‘mercy’, ‘peace’ + rÃk ‘power’. The addition in English of an inorganic H- to names beginning with a vowel is a relatively common phenomenon. It is possible that this name may have swallowed up a less common Germanic personal name with the first element heri, hari ‘army’.Dutch : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements heri, hari ‘army’ + rÄ«c ‘power’, or from an assimilated form of Henrick, a Dutch form of Henry.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEirc ‘descendant of Erc’, a personal name meaning ‘speckled’, ‘dark red’, or ‘salmon’. There was a saint of this name. The surname is born by families in Munster and Ulster, where it has usually been changed to Harkin.The English poet Robert Herrick (1591-1674) was from a prosperous family of goldsmiths, who had a long association with the city of Leicester. There is a family tradition that they were of Scandinavian origin, descended from Eric the Forester, who settled in the city in the 11th century. The initial aspirate came into the name in the late 16th cedntury; the name of the poet's great-grandfather is recorded in the corporation books of the city of Leicester in 1511 as Thomas Ericke.
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Tamil
Powerful, Power, Diamond, Darkness
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Tamil
Bring light in the darkness (She is the wife of Sekhar)
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Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinn, Ó Doinn ‘descendant of Donn’, a byname meaning ‘brown-haired’ or ‘chieftain’.English : nickname for a man with dark hair or a swarthy complexion, from Middle English dunn ‘dark-colored’.Scottish : habitational name from Dun in Angus, named with Gaelic dùn ‘fort’.Scottish : nickname from Gaelic donn ‘brown’. Compare 1.
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Serbian
(Дарко) Serbian name derived from Slavic dar, DARKO means "gift."
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English
English : unexplained. It could be a habitational name from Ditsworthy in Sheepstor, Devon (which is perhaps named from a Middle English personal name Durke ‘the dark one’ + Middle English worth(y) ‘enclosure’) or from some other, unidentified place. The surname is not found in current English records.
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English (Midlands)
English (Midlands) : nickname for a dark-complexioned man, from Old English earp ‘swarthy’.Americanized spelling of German Erp.
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English
English : from a Middle English personal name Dunstan, composed of Old English dunn ‘dark’, ‘brown’ + stÄn ‘stone’. This name was borne by a 10th-century archbishop of Canterbury who was later canonized.English : habitational name from Dunstone in Devon, named from Old English DunstÄnestÅ«n ‘settlement of Dunstan’ (as in 1). The surname is still chiefly common in Devon, but there are places in other parts of the country with similar names but different etymologies (e.g. Dunstan in Northumbria, Dunston in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Staffordshire, and Derbyshire), which may possibly have contributed to the surname.Scottish : partly perhaps the same as 1, but there is a place named Dunstane in Roxburghshire, which may also be a source of the surname.
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English
English : variant spelling of Dark.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : topographic name from Middle English dun ‘dark’ + wella ‘stream’, ‘spring’.English (Yorkshire) : from the Old English personal name Dunweald.
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Tamil
Powerful, Power, Diamond, Darkness
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Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhda ‘descendant of Dubhda’, a byname derived from dubh ‘dark’, ‘black’. The family were chieftains in Sligo and Mayo.English : from the personal name Dowd, a variant of David.
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English
English : occupational name for a dyer of cloth, Middle English dyer (from Old English dēag ‘dye’; the verb is a back-formation from the agent noun). This surname also occurs in Scotland, but Lister is a more common equivalent there.Irish (Counties Sligo and Roscommon) : usually a short form of MacDyer, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Duibhir ‘son of Duibhir’, a short form of a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘dark’, ‘black’ + odhar ‘sallow’, ‘tawny’.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places in northern England called Kirby or Kirkby, from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + býr ‘settlement’.Irish : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Garmhaic ‘descendant of Ciarmhac’, a personal name meaning ‘dark son’. Compare Kerwick.
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English
English : variant spelling of Dimmick.Perhaps an Americanized form of Serbian Dimić, from the personal name Dima, a pet form of Dimitrije, from Greek Dēmētrios (Latin Demetrius; see Demetriou).Americanized spelling of Slovenian Dimic : nickname for a gray-haired man, from the noun dimec ‘graybeard’, a derivative of the adjective dimast ‘dark gray’. The form Dimec is also found as a Slovenian name.
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English
English : variant of Dark.German (Dürk) : variant of Türk ‘Turk’, a nickname for a wild or unruly person, or sometimes for a prisoner of war (from the Turkish Wars).German : possibly a variant of Dirk.
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English
English : nickname for someone with dark hair or a dark complexion, from Middle English darke, Old English deorc ‘dark’. In England, the surname is most frequent in the West Country.
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English
English : nickname for a happy, cheerful person, from Middle English lyght, Old English lēoht ‘light’ (not dark), ‘bright’, ‘cheerful’.English : nickname for someone who was busy and active, from Middle English lyght, Old English līoht ‘light’ (not heavy), ‘nimble’, ‘quick’. The two words lēoht and līoht were originally distinct, but they were confused in English from an early period.English : nickname for a small person, from Middle English lite, Old English l̄t ‘little’, influenced by lyght as in 1 and 2.
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adv.
In the dark.
imp. & p. p.
of Darken
a.
Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless.
a.
To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.
a.
Dark as a pitch; pitch-black.
p. pr. & a.
Dark; gloomy.
a.
Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant.
a.
Full of darkness.
adv.
With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.
n.
One who, or that which, darkens.
p. pr. & a.
Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Darken
v. t.
To darken to obscure.
a.
Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed.
v. i.
To grow dark; to show indistinctly.
a.
Somewhat dark; dusky.
n.
A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted.
n.
Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion.
v. i.
To grow or darker.
n.
Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.