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FLAX
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English
English : nickname for a cheerful person, from Middle English rote ‘glad’ (Old English rÅt).English : metonymic occupational name for a player on the rote, an early medieval stringed instrument (Middle English, Old French rote, of uncertain origin but apparently ultimately akin to Welsh crwth).Dutch : topographic name for someone who lived by a retting place (Dutch root, a derivative of ro(o)ten ‘to ret’, akin to modern English rot), a place where flax is soaked in tubs of water until the stems rot to release the linen fibers.
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English
English : habitational name from Lyford in south Oxfordshire (formerly in Berkshire), named in Old English as ‘flax-ford’, from līn ‘flax’ + ford ‘ford’.
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English
English : habitational name from either of two places in West Yorkshire called Lindley, or from Linley in Shropshire and Wiltshire, all named from Old English līn ‘flax’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘glade’, with epenthetic -d-, or from another Lindley in West Yorkshire (near Otley), named in Old English as ‘lime wood’, from lind ‘lime tree’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Lindley in Leicestershire probably also has this origin, and is a further possible source of the surname.German : habitational name from places in Bavaria and Hannover called Lindloh, meaning ‘lime grove’, or a topographic name with the same meaning (see Linde + Loh).
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English and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
English and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a flax grower or dealer or for someone who processed it for weaving (see Flax).Probably a respelling of German Flachsmann, of the same meaning as 1, from Middle High German vlahs ‘flax’ + man ‘man’.
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English
English : habitational name from places called Lindon in Lincolnshire, Linden End, Haddenham, in Cambridgeshire, or Lyndon, Rutland, all named from Old English lind ‘lime tree’ or līn ‘flax’ + dūn ‘hill’.
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a dresser of flax, from Middle English lynet, lynt ‘flax’.Dutch : from a short form of a Germanic name formed with lind (see Linde 1).Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a linen weaver or merchant.
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English
English : from a pet form of the female personal name Elizabeth. Compare Hibbs 2.English : nickname for someone with very fair hair or skin, from Middle English, Old English lilie ‘lily’ (Latin lilium). The Italian equivalent Giglio was used as a personal name in the Middle Ages. In English and other languages there has also been some confusion with forms of Giles.English : habitational name from places called Lilley, in Hertfordshire and Berkshire. The Hertfordshire place was named in Old English as ‘flax-glade’, from līn ‘flax’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The Berkshire name is from Old English Lillinglēah ‘wood associated with Lilla’, an Old English personal name.
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English
English : variant of Lanier 1.Dutch : variant of Leonard.Jewish (western Ashkenazic) : name taken by someone who was good at chanting the Pentateuch at public worship in the synagogue or who regularly did so, from West Yiddish layner ‘reader’ (a derivative of West Yiddish laynen ‘to read’, which comes ultimately from Latin legere ‘to read’).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a flax grower or merchant, from German Lein ‘flax’ + agent suffix -er.
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English
English : occupational name for a wool or flax comber, Middle English kem(be)stere (an agent derivative of Old English cemban ‘to comb’). Although this was originally a feminine form of the masculine kembere, by the Middle English period the suffix -stre had lost its feminine force, and the term was used to refer to both sexes. Compare Baxter, Brewster, Dexter.
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English
English : variant of Flax.
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English
English : occupational name for an extractor or seller of oil, from a metathesized form of Anglo-Norman French olier (from oile ‘oil’, Latin oleum ‘(olive) oil’; compare Oliva). In northern England linseed oil obtained from locally grown flax was more common than olive oil.English : from the Continental Germanic personal name Odilard, Oilard, introduced by the Normans.Americanized spelling of German Euler or of Swabian Äuler, a topographic name for someone who lived by a water meadow, Äule, a diminutive of Au.
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German
German : from Middle High German lins(e) ‘lentil’, presumably a metonymic occupational nickname for a grower of lentils.German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with Old High German lint ‘snake’ or linta ‘linden tree’, ‘shield’.English (Staffordshire) : unexplained. Possibly a variant of Lynes.Latvian : possibly from lins ‘flax’.
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English
English : habitational name from places in Devon, Oxfordshire, and Wiltshire named Lynam, from Old English lÄ«n ‘flax’ + hÄm ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.Irish : English surname adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic Ó Laidhghneáin (see Linehan).
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English (Cheshire)
English (Cheshire) : from Middle English hekel ‘heckle’, an implement for combing or scutching flax or hemp for spinning, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or used heckles.French (Alsace; Hecklé) : from a diminutive of German Heck 2.
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English
English : habitational name from Great and Little Linford in Buckinghamshire or Lynford in Norfolk. The former may have Old English hlyn ‘maple’ as its first element; the latter is more likely to contain līn ‘flax’. The second element in each case is Old English ford ‘ford’.
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English
English : habitational name from Lingart, Lancashire, or Lingards Wood in Marsden, West Yorkshire, both named from Old English līn ‘flax’ + garðr ‘enclosure’.
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English
English : habitational name possibly from any of three places in Devon called Lincombe, named in Old English with līn ‘flax’ or lind ‘lime tree’ + cumb ‘valley’.
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English (East Anglia) and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
English (East Anglia) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for someone who grew, sold, or treated flax for weaving into linen cloth, from (respectively) Middle English flax, German Flachs.
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a worker in the linen or hemp industry, from Middle English swingle ‘swingle’, a wooden implement used for beating flax or hemp (Middle Dutch swinghel, from the verb ‘to swing’).Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Zwingel, a topographic name from Middle High German zwingel ‘citadel’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle English hekel ‘to comb (flax or hemp) with a heckle’.South German : occupational name for someone who used a small hoe, from a diminutive of Middle High German hacke hoe + the agent suffix -er.German : variant of Häckler (see Hackler).
FLAX
FLAX
Girl/Female
British, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Muslim, Pakistani
God's Lighting
Girl/Female
Muslim
A field of wild roses
Girl/Female
Indian, Tamil
Intelligent and Beautiful
Female
French
Literary name derived from an Old French slang word (cosette) for something small and trivial, COSETTE means "little thing of no importance." Victor Hugo gave this name to the illegitimate daughter of Fantine in his novel Les Misérables.Â
Female
Egyptian
, the daughter of Mert-hapi.
Surname or Lastname
Dutch, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
Dutch, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant (plural) of Linde.English : variant spelling of Lindon.Belgian and Dutch (van Linden) : habitational name from places called Linden in Brabant and North Brabant.Dutch (van der Linden) : habitational name from any of numerous places called Ter Linde.Irish : reduced form of McLinden.Swedish (Lindén) : ornamental name from lind ‘lime tree’ + the common suffix -én, from the Latin adjectival ending -enius.
Girl/Female
Bengali, Indian
Veda Varshita
Surname or Lastname
Scottish
Scottish : variant of Annan. In the Middle Ages, the place name and surname were most often recorded as Anand or Anant. The final d or t is a common feature of early Scottish spelling. Compare Donald, from Donall.English : from Anand, an East Anglian personal name, from Scandinavian Anund, recorded in Domesday Book and elsewhere.
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi
Name of Brahmaa
Girl/Female
Hindu
A kind of necklace, Auspicious symbol
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FLAX
n.
A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.
a.
Like flax; flaxen.
v. t.
To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax.
n.
Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like.
v. t.
To beat; to break, as flax or hemp.
a.
Made of flax; resembling flax or its fibers; of the color of flax; of a light soft straw color; fair and flowing, like flax or tow; as, flaxen thread; flaxen hair.
n.
A woven band of cotton or flax, used for reins, girths, bed bottoms, etc.
n.
The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.
v.
An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
n.
A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the operation of breaking.
n.
A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.
v. t.
To open and cleanse, as cotton, flax, or wool, by means of a willow. See Willow, n., 2.
n.
The seed of the flax; linseed.
v. t.
To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
n.
The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing.
v. t.
To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
v. t.
To ret, or rot, in water, as flax; to water-rot.
n.
An herb (Linaria vulgaris) of the Figwort family, having narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers; -- called also butter and eggs, flaxweed, and ramsted.
v. t.
To comb or card, as wool or flax.
n.
An implement or machine for scutching hemp, flax, or cotton; etc.; a scutch; a scutching machine.