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English
English : variant of Newenham, itself a variant of Newham, with the adjective (Old English nēowe ‘new’) retaining the weak dative -an inflection, originally used after a preposition and article. The English surname is also established in Ireland (County Cork), having been taken there by an English family in the mid 17th century.
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English
English : nickname, perhaps for a messenger, from Middle English gÅ(n) ‘to go’ (Old English gÄn) + lihtly ‘lightly’, ‘swiftly’ (Old English lÄ“oht(lÄ«c)).Scottish : altered form of a surname of uncertain origin, possibly an unidentified habitational name. The earliest known bearer is William Galithli, who witnessed a charter at the beginning of the 13th century. Henry Gellatly, an illegitimate son of William the Lion, of whom little or nothing is known, was the grandfather of Patric Galythly, one of the pretenders to the crown of Scotland in 1291.Irish : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac an Ghallóglaigh ‘son of the galloglass’, Irish gallóglach. A galloglass was a mercenary retainer or auxiliary soldier (a compound of gall ‘foreigner’ (see Gall 1) + óglach ‘youth’, ‘warrior’). The name is also found pseudo-translated as English.
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English, of French (Huguenot) origin
English, of French (Huguenot) origin : altered form of French Vassal, status name for a medieval retainer (see Vassell).
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English
English : probably from the possessive case of the Middle English word eam ‘uncle’, denoting a retainer in the household of the uncle of some important local person.English : possibly also a variant of Ames.
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English (mainly Devon and Cornwall)
English (mainly Devon and Cornwall) : nickname from Norman French buge ‘mouth’ (Late Latin bucca), applied either to someone with a large or misshapen mouth or to someone who made excessive use of his mouth, i.e. a garrulous, indiscreet, or gluttonous person. The word is also recorded in Middle English in the sense ‘victuals supplied for retainers on a military campaign’, and the surname may therefore also have arisen as a metonymic occupational name for a medieval quartermaster.Scottish (Caithness and Orkney) : unexplained.
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English
English : habitational name from Knightley in Staffordshire, named in Old English as ‘the wood or clearing of the retainers’, from cnihtÄ, genitive plural of cnihta ‘servant’, ‘retainer’ + lÄ“ah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
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English
English : from Earl with genitive -s, probably referring to a servant or retainer of a particular earl.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the places, in Kent and Norfolk, so called from Old English SwÄnatÅ«n ‘settlement (Old English tÅ«n) of the retainers’ (see Swan 2).
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English, Dutch, and German
English, Dutch, and German : occupational name for a retail trader, Middle English manger, monger, Middle Dutch manger, menger, Middle High German mangære, mengære (from Late Latin mango ‘salesman’, with the addition of the Germanic agent suffix).Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead in southwestern Norway named as Mángr in Old Norse, perhaps from már ‘sea gull’ + angr ‘fjord’.
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English, Scottish, and Irish
English, Scottish, and Irish : variant of Usher 1, with the Old French definite article prefixed.Translation of French Lussier, L’Huissier with the French definite article retained. Compare Lafontaine.Americanized spelling of German Lüscher (see Luscher).
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English (northern England)
English (northern England) : habitational name from places called Hoole, in Cheshire and Lancashire. The former is so called from the Old English dative case hole of holh ‘hollow’, ‘depression’; the latter from Middle English hule ‘hut’, ‘shelter’ (Old English hulu ‘husk’, ‘covering’). In both cases the final -e is now silent in the place name, but has been retained in the surname, with consequent alteration in the spelling.
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English
English : habitational name from Sidney in Surrey and Lincolnshire, so named from Old English sīd ‘wide’ + ēg ‘island’, ‘dry island in a fen’, with the adjective retaining traces of the weak dative ending, originally used after a preposition and definite article. Two places in Cheshire called Sydney are from Old English sīd + halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’ and may also be sources of the surname.English : possibly a habitational name from a place in Normandy called Saint-Denis, from the dedication of its church to St. Dionysius (see Dennis). There is, however, no evidence to support this derivation beyond occasional early modern English forms such as Seyndenys, which may equally well be the result of folk etymology.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Servant of the retarder
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English
English : from the genitive singular of Knight, hence a name for a son or a retainer of a knight.
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Chinese
Chinese : variant of Wen 2.Chinese : from a character in the personal name of Hu Gongman, a retainer of Wu Wang. After the latter established the Zhou dynasty in 1122 bc, he granted the state of Chen to Hu Gongman, whose descendants adopted the second character of his given name, Man, as their surname. This character also means ‘Manchurian’, but the name does not appear to be related to this meaning.Chinese : variant of Wen 3.Chinese : variant of Wan 1.English and Jewish : variant spelling of Mann.Dutch : from Middle Dutch man ‘man’, ‘husband’, ‘vassal’, ‘arbiter’.French : from the Germanic personal name Manno (see Mann 2).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the personal name Man, derived from Yiddish ‘man’.
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English (chiefly Northumbria)
English (chiefly Northumbria) : occupational name for a tender of animals, normally a cowherd or shepherd, from Middle English herde + man ‘man’. The surname is also found in Ireland, where it dates back to around the 14th century.Scottish : status name from Old English hīredman ‘retainer’, denoting a member of a lord’s household and followers, the hīred.German (Herdmann) : occupational name for a tender of animals (see Herder).
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English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places named with Old English cnihta, genitive plural of cniht ‘servant’, ‘retainer’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
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English, Irish (Ulster), Scottish, and Dutch
English, Irish (Ulster), Scottish, and Dutch : name applied either to a Scandinavian or to someone from Normandy in northern France. The Scandinavian adventurers of the Dark Ages called themselves norðmenn ‘men from the North’. Before 1066, Scandinavian settlers in England were already fairly readily absorbed, and Northman and Normann came to be used as bynames and later as personal names, even among the Saxon inhabitants. The term gained a new use from 1066 onwards, when England was settled by invaders from Normandy, who were likewise of Scandinavian origin but by now largely integrated with the native population and speaking a Romance language, retaining only their original Germanic name.French : regional name for someone from Normandy.Dutch : ethnic name for a Norwegian.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Nordman.Jewish : Americanized form of some like-sounding Ashkenazic name.Swedish : from norr ‘north’ + man ‘man’.Albert Andriessen Bradt, a settler in Rensselaerswijck on the upper Hudson River in NY, was originally from Norway and was known as de Norrman (‘the Norwegian’). The waterway south of Albany which powered his mills became known as the Normanskill (‘the Norman’s Waterway’), by which name it is still known today.
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English
English : occupational name for a retail trader or a stallholder in a market, Middle English monger, manger (see Manger).
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : via Old French from the Germanic personal name Milo, of unknown etymology. The name was introduced to England by the Normans in the form Miles (oblique case Milon). In English documents of the Middle Ages the name sometimes appears in the Latinized form Milo (genitive Milonis), although the normal Middle English form was Mile, so the final -s must usually represent the possessive ending, i.e. ‘son or servant of Mile’.English : patronymic from the medieval personal name Mihel, an Old French contracted form of Michael.English : occupational name for a servant or retainer, from Latin miles ‘soldier’, sometimes used as a technical term in this sense in medieval documents.Irish (County Mayo) : when not the same as 1 or 3, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolmhuire, Myles being used as the English equivalent of the Gaelic personal name Maol Muire (see Mullery).Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : unexplained.Dutch : variant of Miels, a variant of Miele 3.John Miles or Myles (c.1621–83), born probably in Herefordshire, England, was a pioneer American Baptist minister who emigrated to New England in 1662 and had a pastorate in Swansea, MA. Many of his descendants spell their name Myles.
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English French
Servant of the priory.
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada
Inside
Boy/Male
Australian, British, English, Finnish, French, Latin, Shakespearean, Swedish
Happy; Rejoice; Lord; Similar to Gaius which is a More Common Form of the Name in Britain
Male
Arthurian
, (Sir), a son of Urien; ("young warrior").
Female
Russian
(Катенька) Diminutive form of Russian Ekaterina and Yekaterina, KATENKA means "pure."
Boy/Male
Hindu
Lord of the mind, God of mind
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Arabic, Muslim
The Moon
Female
Irish
Feminine form of English Neas, NEASSA means "excellent valor." In Irish mythology, this is the name of the mother of Conchobhar.Â
Girl/Female
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Traditional
An Early Evening Melody
Girl/Female
Tamil
Devagandhari | தேவாகாஂதாரீ
Name of a Raga
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v. t.
To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate.
imp. & p. p.
of Retaliate
a.
Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.
n.
The act of retarding; retardation.
a.
Same as Retaliatory.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Retard
n.
The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
n.
A fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause, or to prevent his being employed by the opposing party in the case; -- called also retaining fee.
n.
The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay.
v. i.
To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.
n.
The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration.
a.
Tending, or serving, to retard.
n.
Retardation; delay.
v. t.
To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.
imp. & p. p.
of Retard
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Retaliate
n.
That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
n.
The act of retaining; retention.
v. t.
To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.
n.
One who, or that which, retards.