Nicky

A diminutive of the female given names Nicola, Nichola, or Nicole.

A diminutive of the male given name Nicholas.


Bert

Shortened version of Bertrand, Albert, Bertram, Robert, Herbert, Gilbert or any name containing the Germanic element bert/berht/beraht/brecht "bright".

A diminutive form of male given names containing the element bert, such as Albert or Robert, also used as a formal given name.


Susy

And trust me, Susy, added the corporal, turning to Susannah, whose eyes were swimming with water, before that time comes round again, a bright eye will be dim.

1765, Laurence Sterne, chapter VIII, in Tristram Shandy:

A diminutive of Susan and of related female given names.


Vicky

The next people I ran into were my gorgeous sister-in-law Vicky, Mrs. Mike Mulvaney Jr. with the caramel-colored hair—very pregnant—again—and her little girl Chrissy, my firstborn niece, for whom my heart always gave a lurch.

1996, Joyce Carol Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys, Harper Perennial, published 2007, →ISBN, pages 389, 440:

A diminutive of the female given name Victoria, also used as a formal given name.


Edlyn

A 20th-century coinage, apparently a blend of Ed + Lyn, or a variant of Edeline.

A female given name from the Germanic languages.


Milly

A diminutive of the female given names Mildred, Millicent, Emily and Camilla, also used as a formal given name.


Freddie

A diminutive of the male given name Frederick


Zoë

From Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ, “life”). It was the name of a third century martyr venerated in the Orthodox Church.

"Zoë!" The high-born girl repeated her own name in genuine astonishment. / "Yes," replied the negress. "Rustan is very affectionate. He says that I am his Zoë, his "life", because he would surely die of starvation without me."

1907, Francis Marion Crawford, Arethusa, BiblioBazaar,LLC, published 2009, →ISBN, page 67:


Asha

Borrowed from Sanskrit आशा (āśā, “one having the knowledge of morality”).

bor

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Sigourney

According to Ernest Nègre in his book Toponymie générale de la France (1990), the French placename Sigournais comes from Old French Segurniaci, which itself has been derived from Latin Secorinus + -acum. So it appears that the resemblance to Germanic dithematic names starting with *segaz is superficial.

“Please come and see me. . . . Phone book. . . . Under the name of Mrs. Sigourney Howard. . . . My aunt. . . .” [In the novel, "Mrs. Sigourney Howard" means "the wife of Mr. Sigourney Howard".]

1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 3, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC:

(rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.

The actress Sigourney Weaver took her ‘stage’ name from Sigourney Howard, a minor character mentioned in The Great Gatsby. But what is also worth noting is the fact that the character’s name, ‘Mrs Sigourney Howard’, actually refers to the husband, so Sigourney is a male given name in the novel.

2015, Interesting Literature, Five Fascinating Facts about The Great Gatsby:

(rare) A female given name transferred from the surname.


Jennie

A diminutive of the female given names Jane and Jennifer, also used as a formal given name.


François

Borrowed from French François, from Medieval Latin Franciscus (from Francia + -iscus).

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A male given name from French, equivalent to English Francis.


Tories

Helped by massive tax increases piled on to the electorate by the Tories in their first post-election budget, we slowly began to win the battle.

2011, Philip Gould, The Unfinished Revolution: How New Labour Changed British Politics:

(UK politics) The British Conservative Party


pitmatic

The language spoken by inhabitants of the mining villages in Northumberland or Durham.


Cassius

Borrowed from Latin Cassius, a Roman name derived from the gens Cassia.


Mildred

From the name of an 8th-century English saint, Old English Mildþrȳþ (from milde (“mild”) + þrȳþ (“strength”)).

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Queens drop away, while blue-legg'd Maukin lives; / Drones thrive when bees are burnt within their hives; / And courtly Mildred dies, while country Madge survives.

~1625 Francis Quarles, Elegy on Lady Luckyn

One day Dunsford told him her name was Mildred. He had heard one of the other girls in the shop address her. "What an odious name," said Philip. "Why?" asked Dunsford. "I like it." . "It's so pretentious."

1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, Pan Books, published 1973, page 268:


Chelsea

From Old English Celchyth, from cealc (“chalk”) + hȳþ (“landing place”).

A female given name transferred from the place name.


Dicky

A diminutive of the male given name Richard.


Cuthbert

Name of early English saints, from Old English Cūþbeorht (“brightly known, famous”).

"What's the first name?" […]
"I have a horrible feeling that it's Lancelot!"
"Good God!" said Archie.
"It couldn't really be that, could it?"
Archie looked grave. He hated to to give pain, but he felt he must be honest.
"It might," he said. "People give their children all sorts of rummy names. My second name's Tracy. And I have a pal in England who was christened Cuthbert De la Hay Horace. Fortunately everyone calls him Stinker."

1921, P.G.Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, page 162:


Orlando

/ɔːˈlæn.dəʊ/

From Italian Orlando (“Roland”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *Hrōþiland. The Florida city has gone by the name since 1857, perhaps in honour of the soldier Orlando Reeves, whom Seminoles killed there in 1835. (Previously, it had been settled in 1844 as Jernigan.) Doublet of Roland.

St. Oswald's boys were not called Ben. St Oswald's boys were called Leon, or Jasper, or Rufus or Sebastian. A St Oswald's boy can pass off a name like Orlando, can make it sound like peppermint.

2010, Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 99:


Antoine

From French Antoine. Doublet of Anthony.

A male given name from French occasionally borrowed from French, mostly in the U.S.


Julie

The first-born Child had every dawning Grace / And promis'd Beauty in her form and face. / "We'll call her Julie if you please, my dear," / The Mother cry'd, "I doat on Julie Vere." / "What! no Remembrance of her Aunt! for Shame! / You doat indeed! be Barbara her name!"

1813, George Crabbe, “Tracy”, in Adolphus William Ward, editor, Poems by George Crabbe, The University Press, published 1907, page 455:

"I loathe the name of Julia. Julie, in the French way, is quite pretty, but Julia! - "
"Call her Cousin Julie then; I've no doubt she'll prefer it. She's nothing if not progressive, I believe."

1917, Grace Flandrau, Cousin Julia, D. Appleton and Company, page 3:

They were called Jim & Julie, professionally. It seemed such a waste to deal in fantasy, in illusion and pretend, and not christen one's endeavor more suggestively. Kate wondered if their real names were Letitia and Sylvester, or Cleopatra and Mandrake; perhaps they'd gone undercover with white-bread names in quest of posh children's parties and Yankee suitability.

2000, Jayne Anne Phillips, Mother Kind, page 156:

A female given name from French Julie, equivalent to English Julia. Popular in the latter half of the 20th century.

(rare) A diminutive of the female given name Julia.


Jacqueline

From the French feminine diminutive form of Jacques (“James”). From Hebrew יעקב (“Ya‘akov”, from the Hebrew root עקב (‘akev, “heel”)), because Jacob was born just behind Esau, and was grasping Esau’s heel in an effort to prevent him from being born first.

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from the Hebrew root <i class="Hebr mention" lang="he">עקב</i> (‘akev, “heel”)

Jacqueline was so named simply because their mother had liked the ring of the word, sounding Parisian and worldly and auguring, to her mind, a good life.

1993, Oscar Hijuelos, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, →ISBN, page 6:


Morton

From Old English mōr (“moor, marsh”) + tūn (“settlement”).


Nathaniel

Modification, under influence of Daniel, of Nathanael, from Ancient Greek Ναθαναήλ (Nathanaḗl), from Biblical Hebrew נְתַנְאֵל (Netan'el, literally “God has given”).

Nathaniel's coat, sir, was not fully made,
And Gabriel's pumps were all unpink'd i' the heel.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

‘What’s your Christian name, Sir?’ angrily inquired the little judge. ‘Nathaniel, Sir.’ ‘Daniel—any other name?’ ‘Nathaniel, sir—my Lord, I mean.’ ‘Nathaniel Daniel, or Daniel Nathaniel?’ ‘No, my Lord, only Nathaniel —not Daniel at all.’ ‘What did you tell me it was Daniel for, then, sir?’ inquired the judge.

1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 34, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

Marcella and Nathaniel. Now I know their names. I haven't thought much about having children, but if I did, I wouldn't give them names like that. They're the sort of names you choose if you think you're someone to be reckoned with.

2010, Sophie Hannah, A Room Swept White, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 102:


Valerie

From French Valérie, from Latin Valeria. Doublet of Valeria.

Cos since I've come home, well my body's been a mess
And I've missed your ginger hair and the way you dress
Won't you come on over stop making a fool out of me?
Why won't you come on over Valerie? Valerie? Valerie? Valerie?

2006, Zutons (lyrics and music), “Valerie”:


Jocelyn

/ˈd͡ʒɒsəlɪn/

From the Middle English male given name from Old French Joscelin, German Gautzelin, diminutive of names beginning with the tribal name Gaut (“a Geat, a Goth”), the root form of which probably comes from Proto-Germanic *Gautalinþiz (from *gautaz + *linþaz); also used as a diminutive form of the Breton name Josse (= Joyce). It survived as a surname and was revived as a given name in the nineteenth century.
* Jocelyn is currently popular among U.S. Hispanics, and in the Philippines, by folk etymology explained as a feminine diminutive form of José (Joseph).

(dated) A male given name from the Germanic languages.

I drove Dorothy immediately to King George V Hospital and two hours later she delivered a beautiful baby daughter. We named her Jocelyn.

2006, Ted Freeman, Doctor in Vanuatu, Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, →ISBN, page 34:


Pamela

Invented by Sir Philip Sidney for his pastoral poem The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (c 1593). Seemingly created from scratch; some imagine an analysis as Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs, “all”) + μέλι (méli, “honey”) but there is no evidence that this was intended.

They lived about thirty miles from the Squire; and she told me, that I might be sure to find her out by one circumstance; for that they had a daughter with a very strange name, Pamĕla, or Pamēla; some pronounced it one way, and some the other.

1773, Henry Fielding, The History and Adventures of Joseph Andrews, page 259:

- But, Pamela, did you say? - A queer sort of name! - I've heard of it somewhere! - Is it a Christian or a Pagan name? - Linsey-woolsey - half one, half t'other - like thy girl - Ha, ha, ha.'

1786, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, page 416:

A female given name originating as a coinage.

Philip Sidney
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia


Caleb

From Late Latin Caleb, Calebus, from Koine Greek Χάλεβ (Kháleb), from Biblical Hebrew כָּלֵב (Kālēḇ), possibly related to כֶּלֶב (keleḇ, “dog”), referring to the unconditional devotion of dogs to their masters.

"My brother's name was Caleb Peck."
"What a fine old-fashioned name," said Mrs. Tabor.

1976, Anne Tyler, Searching for Caleb, Berkley Books,New York, published 1983, →ISBN, page 14:

A male given name from Hebrew first used by Puritans.


Humphrey

Name of a 9th-century French saint, brought to England by Normans; Proto-Germanic *unnaną (“to grant, bestow”) + *friþuz (“peace”). In Ireland it has been used to Anglicize Irish Amhlaoibh (= Olaf).

I never saw but Humphrey, Duke of Gloster, / Did bear him like a noble gentleman.

"Hump?" I asked. "Humphrey, really. But everybody callls him Hump. I know a lot of people who avoid calling him by his first name. For a long time people didn't think it was quite proper. But nowadays nobody seems to mind. What's happening to the power of words, Benny? Time was I used to blush at the words scrawled on the fences, and now I hear them - everywhere. How are writers going to write books if language is going bland on them?"

1988, Howard Engel, A Victim Must Be Found, page 70:


Eunice

A biblical name from Ancient Greek Εὐνίκη (Euníkē), from εὖ (eû, “good”) + νίκη (níkē, “victory”).

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When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

"Eunice," he said consideringly.
She paused in the midst of licking a dab of frosting off one finger.
"Properly speaking," he said, "it should be 'You-nike-ee'. That's the way Greeks would have said it."
"You-niss is bad enough," she told him. "I've always hated my name."
"Oh, it's a fine name. It means 'victorious'."

2009, Anne Tyler, Noah's Compass, Vintage, →ISBN, pages 109–110:


Edna

From Hebrew עֶדְנָה (“pleasure; delight”); a variant of Eden in the Book of Tobit.
In Ireland and Scotland it has been used as an anglicization of Eithne.

Edna also said to Tobias, The Lord of heaven restore thee, my dear brother, and grant that I may see thy children of my daughter Sara before I die.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Tobit 10:12:

'Edna', forsooth! No doubt her origin and morals are quite as apocryphal as her name.

1866, Augusta Jane Evans, St. Elmo, G. W. Dillingham, page 54:

Conjure faces to go with these names: Edna and Joy. Then I'll tell you that Edna, who has a wicked serve, is our team beauty, and Joy is as plain and dour as they come.


Olaf

And then all hundred and one of us trooped across the grass and onto the platform and got our diplomas from Mr. Halvorson, the superintendent of schools, and he said my name into the microphone―Tollefson, John Olaf―and there is was, the terrible secret of my middle name, revealed, and I slunk back to my seat and people whispered, 'Hey, Ole.'

1998, Garrison Keillor, Wobegon Boy, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 71:


Merlin

From Middle English Merlyn, from Medieval Latin Merlinus and Old French Merlin, from Proto-Brythonic *Mor-ðin (literally “sea-hill”), from Proto-Celtic *mori (“sea”) + *dūnom (“stronghold, rampart”).

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census-designated place
census-designated place

Josephine County
Josephine County#English

A census-designated place in Josephine County, Oregon, United States.


Yindjibarndi

A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language spoken in and around Roebourne and Onslow in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.


Herman

From Old English here (“army”) + man (“man”) It was revived in the 19th century, partly due to American immigrants from continental Europe where the name has been more popular. Compare the German equivalent Hermann.


Baldwin

en-proper noun

Baldwin (countable and uncountable, plural Baldwins)

From Proto-West Germanic *Balþawini, from Proto-Germanic *Balþawiniz (“bold friend”).

der

(countable) A male given name from the Germanic languages; rather rare in English.


Daphne

From Ancient Greek δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel, bay”).

bor

My wife. Daphne. Yes, that was, is, her name. For some reason people have always found it faintly comic. I think it matches very well her damp, dark, myopic beauty.

1989, John Banville, The Book of Evidence, page 7:


Lucian

From Latin Lucianus, either a derivative of the Roman praenomen Lucius, from lux (“light”); or from Ancient Greek Λουκιανός (Loukianós), of obscure meaning.

A male given name from Latin, rare in the English-speaking world.


Andoa

A probably extinct Zaparoan language, spoken in Peru.


Záparo

A Zaparoan language, spoken in Peru and Ecuador.


Zaparoan

An endangered language family of Peru and Ecuador.


Mandinka

From Mandinka Mandinka (“someone from Mande”), from Mandiŋ (“Mande”) + -ka (“inhabitant suffix”).

uder

The language spoken by these people, of the Mandé group of the Niger-Congo language family.


Marguerite

Borrowed from French Marguerite in the 1860s. Doublet of Margaret, ultimately from the Greek word for "pearl". The name has also been adopted for a cultivated daisy.


Jem

You may know what one man thinks of another by his manner of calling him. Thomas and James and Richard and William are stupid young gentlemen; Tom and Jem and Dick and Will are fine spirited fellows.

1830, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:

A diminutive of the male given names James, Jeremy, or Jeremiah.

A diminutive of the female given name Jemima.


Brooke

Audio (US)

A topographic surname for someone who lived near a brook.

A female given name transferred from the surname, fairly popular since the 1970s. it was further popularized by Brooke Shields in the 80s.


Henriette

From French Henriette, feminine form of Henri (“Henry”) coined in the seventeenth century; in English more popular as Harriet and Henrietta.


Shelley

From Old English, meaning "clearing on a bank".

A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly before 1930 usage.

A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1930s and later usage, also explained as a variant of Shirley or Michelle.

A city in Bingham County, Idaho, United States.


Norris

An Anglo-Norman surname, from Old French norreis (“a northerner, a migrant from the north”). More at French norois.

der

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Seymour

From a Norman surname from a place in Normandy, from Old French Saint-Maur, from Late Latin Sanctus Maurus (“Saint Maurus”). The name is cognate to Murry and Maurice.


Malcolm

Royal name in Scotland, anglicised from various historical Goidelic names equivalent to Scottish Gaelic Maol Chaluim or Calum, Irish Maol Colm, Middle Irish Máel Coluim, Old Irish Máel Columb (literally “devotee of [Saint] Columba”); proper nouns derived from máel (“tonsured”) from Proto-Celtic *mailos, and columb (“dove”) from Latin columbus.

We will establish our estate upon / Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter / The Prince of Cumberland.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

Maol Chaluim
Maol Chaluim#Scottish_Gaelic

A male given name from Scottish Gaelic or Goidelic, variant of Calum or Callum, feminine equivalent Malcolmina, equivalent to Scottish Gaelic Maol Chaluim.


Horatio

/həˈɹeɪʃiəʊ/

From Latin Horātius, a Roman gens name of uncertain meaning, possibly “timekeeper”. Doublet of Horace.

There are more things in heauen and earth Horatio,
Then are Dream’t of, in your philoſophie, […]

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], signature D, verso:


Lionel

A Middle English diminutive of French Léon, Latin Leo (“lion”), or of the Middle English nickname Lion + -el (diminutive suffix).

, Scene IV
His grandfather was Lionel, Duke of Clarence,
Third son to the third Edward, King of England.
Spring crestless yeomen from so deep a root?

"Yes. You see, I was born under the sign of Leo, though it's not my real name."
"What is your real name?"
I saw Marcus looking at me, but I couldn't refuse to tell her.
"It's Lionel. But don't tell anyone."
"Why not?"
"Because it's rather a fancy name."

1953, L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between, Hamish Hamilton, published 1974, pages 49–50:

A male given name from Latin of mostly British usage.


Marcia

From Latin Marcia, feminine form of Marcius, a derivative of Marcus, ultimately from Mārs, the god of war.


Wallace

en-proper noun

Wallace (countable and uncountable, plural Wallaces)

An Old English byname for a Welshman or Breton, from Anglo-Norman waleis (“foreign”); see wielisc.

(countable) A male given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage.


Haitian Creole

A language spoken in Haiti; developed first as a creole based on French and several West African languages.


Juliette

A diminutive of the female given name Julie, from French Juliette


Susie

Susie has yellow hair, - - - . She has a little breathless voice and a startled little laugh; even her name is like a powder puff.

1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, page 295:

A diminutive of Susan and of related female given names.


Románico

From the Latin Latin romanice (“in the manner of the Romans”).

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An artificial language composed of regularized source words common to the major Romance languages, created in 1991. It is closely related to Esperanto and Ido.


Luigi

A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Louis.


Roderick

Medieval English name from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþirīks, revived after Walter Scott used it in a poem in 1811, where it is a translation of its Spanish cognate Rodrigo. Roderick is also used to anglicize Scottish Ruairidh and Welsh Rhydderch.

"You must not forget that eventually Roderick will have to succeed whatever title you choose. We must not select anything which would seem ridiculous in connection with Roderick. His actual name is bad enough, as it is. Roderick!" Mrs. Hammond winced. This was a painful subject with her. "How often I pleaded with poor Lucy to call him Thomas!"

1924, P. G. Wodehouse, Bill the Conqueror, George H. Doran, published 1924, page 16:

A male given name from the Germanic languages.


Lib Dem

(Australian politics, UK politics, informal) Liberal Democrat


Olympia

From Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπία (Olumpía), from Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos, “Olympus”).

Olympia
Olympia, Greece
Olympia, Washington

A female given name from Ancient Greek; quite rare in English.


Whitney

From Old English hwītan, dative of hwīt (“white”) + īeġ (“island”), "white island".

"I don't believe I've ever known a woman named 'Whitney'," I said, trying not to look too deeply into her bright blue eyes. "Or, hell, even a man for that matter."
"You've never heard of Whitney Houston?"
"Who's that?" I said, realizing that I had never gotten really serious about a woman with blue eyes.

1993, James Crumley, The Mexican Tree Duck, Picador, published 1994, →ISBN, page 138:

A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1980s and 1990s due to the fame of Whitney Houston.


Vance

From a Southern English dialectal form of Old English fenn (“marsh, bog”).

A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly American usage.


Early New High German

…
Middle High German c1050–1350 nëment …
Transition period c1350–1500 nemen / nement …
Early New High German c1500–1650 nemen …
…

2008, Kjartan Ottosson, The diffusion of systemic changes through the inflectional system: Evidence from person-number inflection in the Nordic languages and German, in: Thórhallur Eythórsson (ed.), Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers (John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam/Philadelphia), p. 329ff., here p. 352 *

The form of the German language spoken from 1350 or 1500 to 1650 CE, successor to Middle High German.

Frühneuhochdeutsch (as adjective: frühneuhochdeutsch)


Shangaan

From the name of Soshangani, the leader of the Revolt against Chaka Zulu, who fled to Zimbabwe. Alternatively from Zulu: shangane: a wanderer.


Skolt Sami

A Finno-Ugric language spoken by 300 people in the area north of the lake Inari in Finland and nearby parts of Russia.


Bryan

en-proper noun

Bryan (countable and uncountable, plural Bryans)

A male given name from Irish, a less common alternative spelling of Brian.


Les Bleus

But they ran out of time and inspiration as Les Bleus set up a deserved semi-final clash with Wales.

2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France:

“The Blues”; nickname for the French national team in various sports.


Penelope

From Ancient Greek Πηνελόπη (Pēnelópē), possibly from πηνέλοψ (pēnélops, “duck”).

"She's a sort of pretend auntie - an old friend of Mummy's. Her real name's Miss Penelope Gill but we always call her Gillie."
"Don't you ever let her hear you calling her Penelope!" said Mrs Lindsay, laughing. "She hates the name, though really I can't see why. I suppose it wasn't so fashionable when she was young."

1967, Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There, HarperCollins, published 2014, →ISBN, page 194:

"What's her name?" He meant the baby's. "Penelope. We're never going to call her Penny. Penelope." - - - ""Oh. Well, it's Penelope Henderson - Porteous I guess. Or Porteous - Henderson. But maybe that's too much of a mouthful, when she's already called Penelope? We knew that we wanted Penelope. We'll have to settle it somehow."

2004, Alice Munro, Runaway:Stories, Knopf, page 93:


Clarissa

Clarissa
Clarissa (novel)
Samuel Richardson

Borrowed from Italian Clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more. Popularized in English by Samuel Richardson's 1748 novel Clarissa. Doublet of Clarisse.

My wife's maiden name—Unmarried name, I should rather say […] was Harlowe—Clarissa Harlowe—you heard me call her my Clarissa—
I did—but I thought it to be a feigned or a love-name, said Miss Rawlins. […]
No—it was her real name, I said.

A female given name from Latin or Italian.


Boyd

From Scottish Gaelic, either buidhe (“blond, yellow, fair”), or a habitational surname from the Isle of Bute in Scotland.

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Cain

From Hebrew קַיִן (Káyin, “craftsman”), present since Old English.


New High German

The modern form of the German language, successor to Middle High German.


New High German

The history of the New High German word Körper (corpus) starts with its Middle High German borrowing from the Latin word corpus, body flesh, corpse, shadow (of a dead person), trunk, belly, person, nature, and others, and leads over the years to the latest form.

1995, Ilse Middendorf, The Perceptible Breath: A Breathing Science (Preface); in: Don Hanlon Johnson (ed.), Bone, Breath & Gesture: Practices of Embodiment, page 75:

nyhøjtysk

of or relating to the modern German language


Angelica

Church Italian Angelica, from Latin angelica or a Latinate elaboration of Angela. Name of a heroine in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1516).

Look to the bak'd meats, good Angelica, / Spare not for cost.

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:


Elise

From French Élise or German Elise, both variants of Elisabeth.

"Obviously I wasn't going to go through life saddled with a name like Elsie. When I got up to London at the age of eighteen everybody laughed at me, so a boyfriend suggested a tiny amendment, two letters swopped, and I've been Elise for thirty years."

2001, Susan Kelly, Killing the Fatted Calf, Allison & Busby, →ISBN, page 34:


Cynthia

Borrowed from Latin Cynthia, from Ancient Greek Κυνθία (Kunthía), feminine of Κύνθιος (Kúnthios, “Cynthian (of or pertaining to Mount Cynthus, a mountain of Delos, celebrated as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis)”).

“Cynthia seems to me such an out-of-the-way name, only fit for poetry, not for daily use.”

1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 10, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:

Cynthia, the domestic-minded, looked as dashing as a young commando. It was a pity that her spelling was so bad, but perhaps there was something Elizabethan about her spelling as well as about her name.

1978, Graham Greene, The Human Factor, →ISBN, page 59:


Annabel

Originally a mishearing or misreading of Latin amabilis (“lovable”) (= Amabel, Mabel), used since the 12th century and by folk etymology interpreted as Anna + belle, "beautiful Anna".

I was a child and she was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea: / But we loved with a love that was more than love — / I and my Annabel Lee;


Cyrus

From Latin Cȳrus, from Ancient Greek Κῦρος (Kûros), from Old Persian 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 (kuruš). As a saints' name it has been identified by folk etymology with Ancient Greek κύριος (kúrios, “lord”).

Cyrus] There were two Cyri the greater, meant here, Conqueror of Aſia, Scythia, and all the Eaſt, reigning in the time of Tarquin the proud. […] The other was Cyrus the leſſer, ſonne to Darius, brother to Artaxerxes, whoſe iourney into Perſia, Xenophon wrote. [marginal note:] The tvvo Cyri. […] Cyri who they were.

1610, Io[annes] Lod[ovicus] Viues, translated by I[ohn] H[ealey], Sᵗ. Augustine, of the Citie of God: With the Learned Comments of Io. Lod. Viues. […], [London]: […] George Eld, page 125 and index:

At this passage the Behistun inscription does not enumerate the names of all the nine Achaemenians, but from an inscription Aššurbānapli to be dated to 639 B. C. we know that a certain Kuraš was the king of the country of Parsumaš at this time and this could be the grandfather of Cyrus «the Great». In the family tree between the two Cyri appears Cambyses I, who is mentioned by Herodotus.

1973, D. Hegyi, “Historical Authenticity of Herodotus in the Persian «Logoi»”, in Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume 21, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISSN, pages 76–77:

Contrast Arrian’s statement that the camp belonged to the younger Cyrus (ii, 4.3). It is unlikely that both Cyri camped in the same area (pace Mützell), for when Cyrus marched against Croesus he entered Asia Minor on the northerly route, as Pteria was his first objective (Hdt. i, 76.1), and he would not therefore have gone through the Cilician Gates.

1980, J[ohn] E[dward] Atkinson, “Commentary on Book 3”, in A Commentary on Q. Curtius Rufus’ Historiae Alexandri Magni, Books 3 and 4, Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, →ISBN, page 137:


Leonard

From Old French Leonard, name of a 6th century Frankish saint, from Old High German leo (“lion”) or Old High German liut (“person”) and hart (“hard”). As a surname, also used as an anglicisation of Irish Ó Leannáin (Lennon).

- - - save the delight of being called "Leo" by those whom the newspapers call "the leading fashionables", whereas, had he stuck to the city, he might still have been called only Leonard, like his father before him.

1844, Catherine Gore, The Birthright and Other Tales, Henry Colburn, published 1844, page 251:

"You want names, I'll give you names. My name is Leonard Alfred Schneider. What was I doing when I took the name Lenny Bruce? I was moving towards the invisible middle.

1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Simon&Schuster, published 1998, →ISBN, page 592:


Johanna

/d͡ʒəʊˈhænə/

From Latin Johanna, variant of Joanna, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets.
Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.


paternoster

/ˈpɑtəɹˌnɔstɚ/

From Middle English paternoster, pater noster, from Old English Paternoster, from Latin Pater noster (“our father”) (the first two words of the Oratio Dominica (“the Lord's prayer”)), from pater (“father”) + noster (“our”). The lift and the fishing equipment are named from their resemblance to a rosary.

(Christianity) The Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.


Seri

The language of this group, variously considered an isolate or a member of the Hokan family.


Kerebe

a language spoken on Ukerewe Island, Tanzania


Kichagga

a Bantu language spoken in parts of Tanzania


Lambya

A Bantu language of Malawi and Tanzania.


Karuk

Borrowed from Karok káruk (“upstream, upriver (people)”), because they live upstream on the Klamath River while the Yurok live downstream.

bor+

The language spoken by this tribe, which is either a language isolate or perhaps Hokan.


Kamba

Under the plan released last week, the highway known as G695 will run through southern Tibet’s Cona (Tibetan: Tsona) county – which lies immediately north of the disputed India-Tibet border demarcated by the Line of Actual Control (LAC) – Kamba county, host of a noted military camp, and Gyirong county near the border with Nepal.

2022 July 21, “China to build second highway through Aksai Chin, claimed by India as part of Ladakh”, in Tibetan Review, archived from the original on 2022-07-21:

A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China


Munukutuba

Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo

One of the official languages of the Republic of the Congo.


Lusoga

a Bantu language spoken in the Busoga region of Uganda.


Lumasaaba

‘Add to that, I am Ganda: don’t even speak Lumasaaba.’

2019, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, “Love Made in Manchester”, in Manchester Happened, Oneworld Publications (2020), page 287:

a Bantu language spoken in eastern Uganda.


Sara

Through faith also Sara her selfe receiued strength to conceiue seede, and was deliuered of a child when she was past age, because she iudged him faithful who had promised.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 11:11:

Olive learnt that her young beauty's name, so far from being anything so fine as Maddalena, was plain Sarah — or Sara, as its owner took care to explain. Olive was rather disappointed - but she thought of Coleridge's ladye love; consoled herself, and tried to console the young lady, with repeating
My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined, &c.
At which Miss Sara Derwent laughed, and asked who wrote that very pretty poetry?

1850 Dinah Craik, Olive, Chapman and Hall, page 151

'I wish I was called Sara,' she said out loud.
'Sarah?' her mother said. 'Why the heck is being called Sarah better than being called Tracy?'
'Not Sarah, Sara,' Tracy said. 'There's no h, you say Saaara.'

2008, Philip Hensher, The Northern Clemency, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 175:

A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah


Khakas

Borrowed from Russian хака́с (xakás, “a Khakas”).

A Yenisei Turkic language spoken by the Khakas people.


Makonde

From Chimakonde or Makonde, the Makonde name of the language.

The Bantu language spoken by the Makonde.


Pauline

From French Pauline, in turn from Latin Paulina; in regular use since the 19th century.

The youngest child of George and Emily Johnson was named Emily after her mother, and Pauline in honor of the only sibling of Emperor Napoleon of France, whose life was the object of George Johnson's consuming interest.

1987, Betty Keller, Pauline: A Biography of Pauline Johnson, Formac Publ. Co., published 1989, →ISBN, page 19:


Maragoli

A dialect of the Luhya language of western Kenya.


Maragoli

A subdivision of the Luhya tribe. The Maragoli speak Luragooli, a language belonging to the Luhya group and very similar to Luganda, Kikuyu, Gishu and several languages in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa.


Manda

A diminutive of the female given name Amanda


Pythagoras

/paɪˈθæɡ.əɹ.əs/

/pɪˈθæɡ.əɹ.əs/

Midland American English

/paɪˈθæ.ɡɚ.əs/

From Ancient Greek Πῡθαγόρᾱς (Pūthagórās).

Pitagora

A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use, and a transliteration from modern Greek.

Gratiano:
O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!
And for thy life let justice be accused.
Thou almost makest me waver in my faith,
To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
That souls of animals infuse themselves
Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit
Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,
Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,
And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,
Infused itself in thee; for thy desires
Are wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC), an Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher.


Shan

From Burmese ရှမ်း (hram:), from Thai สยาม (sà-yǎam). Doublet of Siam.

The language of this people, of the Kra-Dai language family.


Shan

From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 陝／陕 (shǎn).

The Shan Pass: a mountain pass in Shanzhou, Henan, through which the Yellow River flows into the North China Plain.


Ilonggo

Batiano River
Fort San Pedro (Iloilo)
Iloilo River

From Tagalog Ilonggo, from Spanish ilongo, from ilong + -o, the root referring to Hiligaynon ilong (“nose”), from the nose-like shape of the land between the Iloilo River and Batiano River where the Spanish Fort San Pedro is located. See also Spanish pampango.

An Austronesian language of the Visayan language family, spoken in Western Visayas in the Philippines.


Connie

A diminutive of the female given name Constance or, rarely, of Concepción.


Hamish

Anglicized spelling of Scottish Gaelic Sheumais, vocative case of Seumas, from English James.

A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, of mostly Scottish usage


Jimbo

A diminutive of the male given name James


Philippa

A Latinate feminine form of Philip, recorded in medieval England, but originally pronounced like the masculine form.

"You detest every thing insincere, I know, charming Philippa — pardon me, your beautiful name betrays me constantly. Is it not — like your voice — stolen from poetry or music?"

1854, John Esten Cooke, The Youth of Jefferson, Redfield, published 1854, page 22:

They had an expensive, well-cut air which was like a uniform, and their conversation was all about people with names like Terence and Geoffrey, Philippa and Vivien, who lived in London and County Wicklow and who were "terribly amusing".

1963, Jane McIlvaine, Cammie's Cousin, Bobbs-Merrill, page 58:


Ophelia

/əʊˈfiː.lɪə/

Hamlet
Jacopo Sannazaro
William Shakespeare

Borrowed from Italian Ofelia, coined by the poet Jacopo Sannazaro in his poem Arcadia (1504), probably from the Ancient Greek ὠφέλειᾰ (ōphéleia, “help, aid, succour”). The name was used by William Shakespeare for the ill-fated love interest of Hamlet.

uder

I lov’d Ophelia: forty thousand brothers // Could not, with all their quantity of love, // Make up my sum.

1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, Scene i


Lou

en-proper noun

Lou (countable and uncountable, plural Lous)

A diminutive of the male given name Louis.

A diminutive of the female given names Louisa or Louise; often also used as a middle name.


Lou

A Southeast Admiralty Islands language spoken on Lou Island of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea.

The Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea.


Keavy

Anglicised form of the Irish and Scottish Gaelic Caoimhe (“beautiful, precious”).

der

A female given name from Irish used in Ireland and Scotland.


Kendal

From Old English Cent + dæl = "valley of the river Kent".

A town and civil parish with a town council in South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD5192).

A habitational surname from Old English, also as a variant of Kendall.

A male given name transferred from the surname.

A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.


Kildin Sami

One of the languages spoken by the Sami people, written using the Cyrillic alphabet (http://www.omniglot.com/writing/saami.htm).


Ricardo

From Portuguese and Spanish Ricardo. Doublet of Richard.

A male given name from Portuguese or Spanish, equivalent to English Richard.


Sammie

A diminutive of the male given name Samuel, also used as a formal given name.

A diminutive of the female given name Samantha, also used as a formal given name.


Mickey D's

For those five days each month when we've been hormonally hijacked, there are women's health clinics to be defended, underpaid amigas at Mickey D's to be organized, and redwood trees to be protected.

2001, Susan Jane Gilman, Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess, page 42:

He looked around. This place wasn't exactly Mickey D's, but it was sure a lot better than some of the places he'd been eating in lately.

2003, JoAnn Ross, Magnolia Moon, page 121:

What would I tell him, “Sorry, darling, I was at Mickey D's”?

2004, Mariane Pearl, A Mighty Heart: The Inside Story of the Al Qaeda Kidnapping of Danny Pearl, page 97:

"Hey, listen here, ya'll," Serena said, "I don't know if big is beautiful, but Mickey D's fries and Dunkin' Donuts are damn masterpieces. They're straight-up works of art. O-kayyyy?"

"This like Mickey D's. It's all about the dollar." "I can pay you," said the old woman. She raised a pathetic handful of ragged bills.

2005, John Connolly, The Black Angel: A Thriller, page 24:

(US, slang) McDonald's (the chain of fast food restaurants).


Wilfred

The name of two early Anglo-Saxon saints Wilfriþ, from Old English wil (“will”) + friþ (“peace”).

A male given name from Old English, popular in the U.K. in the early twentieth century.


Mkuu

a dialect of the Rombo language of Tanzania.


Rombo

A Bantu language of Tanzania, spoken by the Chaga people.


Seumas

A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, equivalent to English James.


Dominique

From French Dominique. Doublet of Dominic.


Dupont

en-proper noun

Dupont (countable and uncountable, plural Duponts)

A male given name transferred from the surname


Sumerian

/səˈmɪə.ɹɪ.ən/

(linguistics) The ancient language spoken in Sumer, a language isolate.


Britisher

(India) The British colonial authorities; a European member of the British Raj, especially an officer from the colonial authorities.


Ndamba

a language of Tanzania similar to Mbunga and Pogolo.


Houston

Houston (countable and uncountable, plural Houstons)

Originally from a place near Glasgow, from the Middle English equivalent of "Hugh's town". Analyzable as Hugh + -s- + -ton

A male given name transferred from the surname, of mainly American usage.


Dallas

Dallas
Dallas (disambiguation)
George M. Dallas

# The Texas city was named after George M. Dallas, vice president to Polk; family name is evolved from dalhous (13th c.), meaning "dweller at the house in the dale," from dale + house.
# The Scottish place-name is from Pictish, equivalent to Welsh dôl (“meadow, haugh”) + gwas (“abode”).

A male given name transferred from the place name.


Lavukaleve

A language spoken on the Russell Islands, Solomon Islands.


Paakantyi

An aboriginal people of New South Wales.


Paakantyi

A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal suffixing language of this people; Baagandji.


Felix

From Latin Fēlīx (literally “happy, lucky”).

And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 24:24:

Had a funny first name, like Oscar or maybe - no! I remember now. It was Felix. Felix Tanner.

2005 Marc Cerasini, etc, Operation Hell Gate, HarperEntertainment, page 134


Ahmad

From Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad), from حَمِدَ (ḥamida, “to thank or to praise”).

A male given name from Arabic, variant of Ahmed.


Graeme

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Siberian

[saɪˈbɪəɹɪən]


Siberian

[saɪˈbɪəɹɪən]


Immanuel

From Hebrew עִמָּנוּאֵל (ʿimanuʾél), from עִמָּנוּ אֵל (ʿimánu ʾél, literally “God is with us”).

der

Hebrew עִמָּנוּאֵל (ʿimanuʾél)

A male given name from Hebrew: alternative form of Emmanuel


Jen

Usually a clipped or hypocoristic form of Jennifer, although also used for Jean, Jeanette, Jeannette, etc.
Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna in these secondary derivations.


Dorcha

Borrowed from Irish and Scottish Gaelic Dorcha (literally “dark”).

bor

A female given name from Scottish Gaelic


Trenton

⇒ Translingual: trentonensis

Originally named "Trent's town" in the 17th century, after a Quaker, William Trent.
The town in Nova Scotia is named after the capital of New Jersey.

(chiefly US) A male given name transferred from the place name.


Elton

From Old English, meaning "Ella's town".


Roswell

en-proper noun

Roswell (countable and uncountable, plural Roswells)

Metathesized from Middle English Roweshill, from a contraction of either the Old English personal name Hrōþwulf or its Norman cognate Rolf, Rouf, Rou (in the genitive case, adding -es) + Old English hyll (“hill”).

An unincorporated community in Canyon County, Idaho.

(1997) So go on with your life / Forget that Roswell crap / Show love to the black suit / 'Cuz that's the Men In … Black "Men in Black" by Will Smith (1997)

A city, the county seat of Chaves County, New Mexico, known for conspiracy theories that its Roswell Army Air Field has recovered UFOs and extraterrestrials.

Among the cases he examined was an incident that has come to be known as England’s Roswell.

1998, Jim Wilson, “Six Unexplainable Encounters”, in Popular Mechanics, Hearst Magazines, page 66:

Kazantsev’s story was for some unaccountable reason taken seriously in the West, leading to some enthusiasts referring to Tunguska as the Russian Roswell.

2007, Rodney Castleden, Natural Disasters That Changed the World, Book Sales, page 272:

Dubbed “Mexico’s Roswell,” the mid-air collision near Coyame of an airplane and a UFO has been the subject of a major documentary for the History Channel’s UFO Hunters series in 2008, and numerous articles in newspapers, magazines, and Websites.

2008, Noe Torres, Ruben Uriarte, Mexico's Roswell: The Chihuahua UFO Crash, Lulu.com, page 3:

The most significant ufological event of a region.

Tuscarawas County
Tuscarawas County#English

A place in the United States:
A village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.

A census-designated place in Miner County, South Dakota.


Sorcha

Borrowed from Irish and Scottish Gaelic Sorcha (“light, radiant”).


Rukiga

A Great Lakes Bantu language spoken by the Kigezi people, the Bakiga.


Rotuman

A language spoken on the island of Rotuma in Fiji.


Hanna

en-proper noun

Hanna (countable and uncountable, plural Hannas)

Variant spelling of Hannah or romanization of Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥanâ), chiefly for the mother of Samuel, from חַנָּה (ḥanâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). As an Oklahoman town, named for Hanna Bullett, one of the initial settlers. As a Polish village, named for the queen Anna Jagiellon.

(uncommon) A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Hannah.


Shubi

A dialect of the Rwandi-Rundi language of Tanzania.


Elisabeth

The spelling of Elizabeth used in the Authorized Version of the New Testament. Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ (Elisábet), a transliteration of Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע (Elishéva, “my God is an oath”).

der

A female given name from Hebrew, a less common form of Elizabeth in English.


complainer

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-complainer.wav

(Scots law) A complainant (an alleged victim in a criminal trial).


Norn

Ultimately from Old Norse norrǿnn (“northern, Norse”)

An extinct North Germanic language once spoken on the Shetland and Orkney Islands.


Maeve

Anglicized from Irish Méabh, from Middle Irish Medb (literally “intoxicating”), name of a legendary queen of Connacht.

A female given name from Irish of mostly Irish usage.


Wik-Mungkan

A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language spoken in Aurukun, Queensland.


Languedoc

Borrowed from French Languedoc, from langue d’oc (“the language of oc”), from Dante Alighieri’s De vulgari eloquentia, where he wrote in Latin: “nam alii oc, alii si, alii vero dicunt oil” (‘some say òc, others say sì, others say oïl’). Based on the Occitan word òc (“yes”), in contrast to Old French oïl (now French oui).

Pertaining to the Occitan language: Provençal, related to Catalan.


Zigua

a Bantu language of Tanzania and Somalia


Vaughn

en-proper noun

Vaughn (countable and uncountable, plural Vaughns)

A variant of Vaughan, from Welsh bychan (“small”).

A male given name transferred from the surname.

A female given name transferred from the surname.

A census-designated place in Cascade County, Montana, named after Robert Vaughn (Montana rancher).

An unincorporated community in Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.


Proto-Sino-Tibetan

The original language, or rather, cluster of dialects, from which descend the Sino-Tibetan family of languages, to include Tibeto-Burman group and the various Chinese languages; the exact phylogenetic relationships remain subject to scholarly debate.

漢藏語原型

cluster of dialects from which descend the Sino-Tibetan family of languages


Wembawemba

An aboriginal people of New South Wales.


Galwegian

en-adj

Galwegian (comparative more Galwegian, superlative most Galwegian)

more Galwegian (comparative)
most Galwegian (superlative)

/ɡɔːlˈwiːdʒən/

Of or pertaining to Galloway, Scotland, or to its historic people, language and culture.


Galwegian

/ɡɔːlˈwiːdʒən/


Reynold

From Anglo-Norman Reinald, from Proto-Germanic *Raginawaldaz brought to England by Normans and partly merged with the earlier equivalent Ronald, from Old Norse Rǫgnvaldr. Doublet of Renault.

A male given name from the Germanic languages, today more popular in the forms Reginald and Ronald. Modern use is partly transferred from the surname.


Arabella

Uncertain, used in Scotland since the sixteenth century; possibly from Latin orabilis "yielding to prayer" or a variant of Annabel.


Curtis

From Old French corteis and curteis (Modern French courtois (“polite, courteous”). Doublet of courteous.

A cold world, Curtis, in every office but thine; and therefore, fire.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

The night once come, our happiness, our unhappiness, — it is all abolished; vanished, clean gone; a thing that has been: ‘not of the slightest consequence’ whether we were happy as eupeptic Curtis, as the fattest pig of Epicurus, or unhappy as job with potsherds, as musical Byron with Giaours and sensibilities of the heart […]

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter IV, Happy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):

Without undue haste, we named him Curtis simply because we liked the name. It seemed to suit the little guy too. Knowing my love of aviation, several friends and relatives wrongly assumed we have named him after the Curtiss Aircraft Company. I hadn't thought of this, but it was a great idea. There are some terrific aircraft company names to choose. You'll see the likes of Douglas, Martin, Edwards, Ryan, Miles and Albert just to name a few.

1999, Bernie Runstedler, Jr., Breezes Against My Brow, General Store Publishing House., →ISBN, page 77:


Manuel

From Spanish and Portuguese, short for Emanuel.


Rupert

A German name, brought to England by Prince Rupert of the Rhine in the seventeenth century. Doublet of Robert.

A St Oswald's boy can pass off a name like Orlando, can make it sound like peppermint. Even Rupert sounds somehow cool when attached to a navy-blue St Oswald's blazer.

2010, Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 99:

'What about Rupert?' his mother says brightly. 'I've always loved the name Rupert and it's an old family name on my side.'
'Sounds like...a whatdyoucallit?' Ted's father says, folding up the newspaper and tossing it to the floor.
'What?'
'A...' Ted's father puts his hand to his brow '...you know...a thing that children take to bed. Um...Brideshead...um...teddy-bear! That's it. A teddy-bear.'

2010, Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine, Headline, →ISBN, page 91:

(chiefly UK) A male given name from the Germanic languages.


Mortimer

A habitational surname from Mortemer in France, from Old Northern French, literally meaning “dead pond”.

I like the names Herbert and Mortimer more all the time. They are so distinguished and new and American. Do you know how I came to think of them? I was reading the newspaper in bed after my first boy was born. I was reading the society page, which is always so interesting.

1941, Delmore Schwartz, Shenandoah, New Directions, page 13:


Randolph

From Old Norse rǫnd (“shield”) + úlfr (“wolf”).


Sophy

Ultimately from Ancient Greek; see Sophia.

I knew Sophy was a good girl, and would not fall in love to make me angry.

A diminutive of the female given name Sophia.


Vivian

Early saints' name from Latin Vīviānus, and of its feminine form Vīviāna, probably from vīvus (“alive”).

Of the you're-going-to-get-it-anyway faction was a young Australian on board by the name, so help me, of Vivian Nankervis. - - - And he was beautiful, even with a name like Vivian; moreover, he had never been ill a day in his life.

1942, Caroline Mytinger, Headhunting in the Solomon Islands, Macmillan, page 13:

'What's your name?' 'Vivian.' 'Isn't that one of the names that mean something?' She said, 'It means my mother used to go to the movies.'

1990, Paul Theroux, Chicago Loop, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, →ISBN, page 70:


Montgomery

From a Norman surname, from a place in Normandy (Old French for "Gomeric's hill"). Gumaric was a Germanic personal name composed of *gumô (“man”) and *rīks (“ruler”) (whence the modern French surnames Gomery, Gommery and Gumery or the Galician placename Gomariz).


Winnebago

en-noun

Winnebago (plural Winnebagos or Winnebagoes)

Winnebagos (plural)
Winnebagoes (plural)

From Ojibwe Wiinibiigoo (“Winnebago person”), from wiinibiig (“murky water”) (of Lake Winnipeg), from wiini’ (“to make someone dirty”), wiinad (“it is dirty”), plus nibi (“water”), plural nibig (“waters”).

Any of a Native American people of Wisconsin and Nebraska, now called Ho-Chunk.


Winnebago

A village in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States

Winnebago County
Winnebago County#English

A small city in Faribault County, Minnesota, United States.

Faribault County
Faribault County#English

A village in Thurston County, Nebraska, United States.

An unincorporated community in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States.


Gaston

A male given name transferred from the surname or from French, of occasional usage.


Aileen

Though her name was Aileen the minister drafted in continually referred to her as Eileen, but neither Louise nor the ramshackle bunch of people who regarded themselves as her mother's friends had bothered to correct him. Louise liked the way 'Eileen' made her mother seem like someone else altogether, a stranger and not her mother.

2006, Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn, Black Swan, published 2007, →ISBN, page age:

A female given name from Irish, variant of Eileen


Estelle

From Old French estelle (“star”), originally from Latin stella. Name of a third century martyr.

A female given name from French borrowed from French.


Freddy

A diminutive of the male given name Frederick.


Cal

A short form of the male given names Caleb, Calum or Calvin.

A diminutive of the female given name Caroline.


Fipa

A Bantu language of Tanzania and Zambia.


Franny

A diminutive of the female given names Frances, Francine, and Francesca.


Johnnie

A diminutive of the male given name John.


Frannie

From Fran + -ie. The town was named after Frannie Morris, daughter of the town's first postmaster.

A diminutive of the female given names Frances and Francine.


okurigana

(orthography) In the Japanese language, the kana which follow a stem written with kanji, which record how that stem is inflected, and guides recognition of the appropriate kun'yomi reading (word stem associated with the kanji); for example, く (ku) and かべる (kaberu) in 浮(う)く (uk-u, “to float”, intransitive) and 浮(う)かべる (uk-aberu, “to float”, transitive), or む (mu) and きる (kiru) in 生(う)む (umu, “to birth”) and 生(い)きる (ikiru, “to live”). Perhaps analogous to -st, -nd in English 1st (first), 2nd (second).


Bess

King Edward. Come hither, Bess, and let me kiss my boy.

c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi]:

"Jack, couldn't you call me Bette again? You know how much I hate Bess. I don't know what's happened; you've been calling me Bette since we came to California and now, suddenly, you're calling me Bess."
There's a long silence. Dad's still up on his knees; I'm driving along Sepulveda Boulevard toward Olympic.
"Well, Bette, I married you as Bess and I've always liked that name. It's a name you don't hear very often; it's a strong name like you. Every time I call you Bette I'm afraid somebody else might answer."

1981, William Wharton, Dad, Knopf, →ISBN, page 293:

A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth


Mabia

a group of languages spoken in Niger and Congo


Antoinette

From French Antoinette, feminine diminutive of Antoine, equivalent to Anthony.

A female given name from French; best known for the ill-fated French queen Marie Antoinette.

安托瓦妮特

female given name from French Antoinette


Matilda

From Middle English Matilda, from Old French Mathilde, from Old High German Mahthilt, from Old High German maht, meht (“might”) + hild, hilta (“battle”); compare German Mechthild, Old English Mæþhild (“Matilda”).

But wondrously begotten, and begonne / By false illusion of a guilefull Spright, / On a faire Ladie Nonne, that whilome hight / Matilda, daughter to Pubidius, […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13:

Countess of Laussitz - Matilda, too, by the mark! A good name, a marvellous good name, is not, Algernon? Musical, pretty, soft, smoothing, loveable. - - - many a fair prospect is spoiled by the mistake in the name. Call Matilda Joan, or Louisa Deborah, and you are ruined forever!

1844, George Payne Rainsford James, Rose D'Albret, Or, Troublous Times, a Romance, Harper, page 20:

At one time Joan invented other names for her. 'Matilda' brought to mind dingy curtains, gray tent flaps, a slack-skinned old woman. How about Sharon? Lilliane? Elizabeth? Then, Joan didn't know how, the name Matilda became transformed. It started shining like silver. The "il" in it was silver. But not metallic. In Joan's mind the name gleamed now like a fold of satin.

1990, Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth, .Stories, →ISBN, page 187:

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

ম্যাটিল্ডা

female given name, cognates and transliterations


Bradley

en-proper noun

Bradley (countable and uncountable, plural Bradleys)

Ultimately from Old English brād (“broad”) + lēah (“woodland”). Equivalent to broad + -ley.

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Caitlin

Beautiful, charming, rich, clever Caitlin needs one thing: love.

1997, Bernard Alger Drew, The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors: Biographical Sketches and Biographies, page 327:

Caitlin is sixteen and a sixth former at The Magna and is under a lot of pressure with exams.

2003, Helena Pielichaty, After School Club, page 3:

Sixteen-year-old Caitlin — and all our nieces and sisters and friends — need to grow up in a culture that prizes difference, not conformity.

2006, Suzanne Holland, “The Integrity Conundrum”, in Carol Taylor, Roberto Dell'Oro, editors, Health And Human Flourishing: Religion, Medicine, And Moral Anthropology, page 114:

A female given name from Irish Caitlín, equivalent to English Catherine.


Hakka

Of or relating to the Hakka (Kejia, 客家 (Kèjiā)), an ethnic group of the Han Chinese.


Hakka

The first county centre gone through, that of Tsengcheng, was full of new construction. After it, the language on the road right on into the Meihsien prefecture was Hakka.

1977 May, Rewi Alley, “Meihsien—the Great Hakka Centre”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:

We passed through a large Hakka town (Hakka is a Chinese language, one of the three official languages in Taiwan; more on that in later posts) and then began to pitch and roll through a series of white-knuckling switchbacks up Hsinchu County Road 22.

2011 April 28, John MacMillan, “A day in Cingcyuan”, in a tiny revolution (Blog), archived from the original on 2024-02-07:

As a mainland China national, the counter for our trial was fluent in English, Putonghua, and the Sichuan dialect, and was familiar with a number of other major Chinese languages such as Cantonese and Hakka.

2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10:

A Chinese language mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of mainland China (Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Guangxi), Taiwan, Hong Kong, and by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia.


Jules

A male given name A nickname for Julian or Julius.

A female given name A nickname for Julia or Julie.


Brittish

en-adj

Brittish (comparative more Brittish, superlative most Brittish)

more Brittish (comparative)
most Brittish (superlative)

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren.

1776, Thomas Jefferson, others, The [United States'] Declaration of Independence:


Henderson

en-proper noun

Henderson (countable and uncountable, plural Hendersons)

(rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.


Ariadne

Ariadne (countable and uncountable, plural Ariadnes)

(rare, countable) A female given name from Ancient Greek.


Tokyoite

en-adj

Tokyoite (comparative more Tokyoite, superlative most Tokyoite)

more Tokyoite (comparative)
most Tokyoite (superlative)

Of or relating to Tokyo, the capital of Japan.


Anirban

From Bengali অনির্বাণ (onirban), from Sanskrit अनिर्वाण (anirvāṇa), meaning an eternal or inextinguishable flame (of life), from Sanskrit अ- (a-, “un-”) + निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “dying”).

A male given name from Bengali, one of the most common names found among Bengalis.


Ivrit

the Hebrew language, especially Modern Hebrew


Susmita

From Hindi सुष्मिता (suṣmitā, “lovely smile”), from सु- (su-, adjectival prefix) + स्मित (smile) + -आ (-ā, feminine suffix).

af

A female given name from India, of Indian usage.


Hilary

From Latin Hilarius (“cheerful, happy”), name of a fourth-century saint and from its feminine form Hilaria.


Kev

A diminutive of the male given name Kevin.


Gestuno

An international Sign, also known as IS or International Sign, in a way like the Esperanto of the sign-language world.


Adolpho

A male given name from the Germanic languages, of rare usage, variant of Adolph.


Allistair

From Scottish Gaelic Alasdair (“Alexander”). A rare spelling of Alistair.


Abey

A diminutive of the male given name Abraham, from Hebrew.


Sameer

Transliteration of Arabic سَمِير (samīr).


Adolphus

Would any man named Adolphus - any man called Dolly! - object to being called something else?

1906, George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara: Act III:

Sometimes as a child I used to wonder why my brother was called after the man whose very name we were later taught to fear. But then who knows what goes on inside the minds of ambitious, proud Ibo fathers? As most Ibo boys born around that time were called Adolphus after the German leader, Adol is still a fairly common name among the Ibos of Nigeria.

1986, Buchi Emecheta, Head Above Water. An Autobiography. p.11:

A male given name from the Germanic languages, a Latinized variant of Adolph.


Aiden

A male given name from Irish, variant of Aidan.


Alejandro

/ˌæləˈhɑndɹoʊ/

From Spanish Alejandro, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros, literally “the man who repels [enemies]”). Doublet of Alexander.

der

A male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Alexander


Clem

A diminutive of the male given name Clement.

A diminutive of the female given name Clementine.


Lizzy

A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.


yus

Russian юс (jus), from Old Church Slavonic ѫсъ (ǫsŭ, “big yus”)

uder

Either of two letters, little yus (Ѧ) and big yus (Ѫ), representing nasal vowel sounds in the Cyrillic alphabet. The only major Slavic language retaining these sounds is Polish, which is written in the Latin alphabet.


Lowell

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Windsor

Inherited from Middle English Wyndelsore, from Old English Windlesōra (“Windsor”, literally “bank with a windlass, winch by the riverside”), from *windel ("reel, winch"; > Middle English windel (“reel, spool”)) + ōra (“bank, shore”). See windlass.

gloss

"reel, winch"; > Middle English <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">windel</i> (“reel, spool”)


Abdon

en-proper noun

Abdon (countable and uncountable, plural Abdons)

From Hebrew עבדון (abdon, “servant”). Compare Arabic عَبْد (ʕabd) (as in Abdullah), which also means servant.


Millie

A diminutive of the female given names Mildred, Millicent, Emily, Amelia, or Camilla, also used as a formal given name.


Bessy

Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:

A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth; today more often spelled Bessie.


Yvonne

From the French feminine form of Yvon, variant of Yves, from a Germanic root for "yew" (see Old English iw). It might have originally been used of an archer, since yew wood was used to make bows.

In your mother's apple orchard
When the world was left behind:
You were shy, so shy, Yvonne!
But your eyes were calm and kind.

1896, Ernest Christopher Dowson, Yvonne of Brittany:

A female given name from French borrowed from France, in regular use since the twentieth century.


Canaries

/kəˈnɛəɹiːz/

The Canaries went ahead when the home defence failed to clear their lines and Pilkington was on hand to slide in his eighth goal of the campaign.

2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport:

Norwich City Football Club
w:Norwich City F.C.

(UK) Nickname of Norwich City Football Club.


moon letter

Calque of Arabic حَرْف قَمَرِيّ (ḥarf qamariyy).

calque

حَرْف قَمَرِيّ

القُرْآن القرآن#Arabic

(linguistics) One of fourteen Arabic letters that do not affect the pronunciation of the "L" of a preceding definite article (ال- (al--)). The "L" in the Arabic definite article is pronounced "L" when followed by a moon letter: e.g., القُرْآن (al-qurʔān). The fourteen moon letters are: ء (ʔ), ب (b), ج (j), ح (ḥ), خ (ḵ), ع (ʕ), غ (ḡ), ف (f), ق (q), ك (k), م (m), ه (h), و (w), ي (y)


sun letter

Calque of Arabic حَرْف شَمْسِيّ (ḥarf šamsiyy).

حَرْف شَمْسِيّ

الصِّين الصين#Arabic

(linguistics) One of fourteen Arabic letters that cause the "L" of a preceding definite article اَل (al-) to be assimilated in pronunciation. The sun letter suppresses the sound of the "L" and then geminates: al + ṣīn = aṣ-ṣīn. The effect of the sun letter is limited to pronunciation and does not affect the spelling, except that a shadda may be written over the sun letter and in the fully vocalised spelling lām lacks any diacritics: الصِّين (aṣ-ṣīn). The fourteen sun letters are ت (t), ث (ṯ), د (d), ذ (ḏ), ر (r), ز (z), س (s), ش (š), ص (ṣ), ض (ḍ), ط (ṭ), ظ (ẓ), ل (l), ن (n). Phonetically, they represent coronal consonants.


Lourdes

From French Lourdes, corruption of Medieval Latin Lorus (778), the baptismal name taken by a Moorish leader who converted to Christianity, though of unknown ultimate meaning.
The town in Newfoundland is named after the town in France.

A female given name from Spanish, from the Spanish epithet of Virgin Mary as Nuestra Señora de Lourdes.


Arapaho

/əˈɹeɪpəhoʊ/

From a Siouan language, perhaps Hidatsa arúpahu (“Arapaho person”) or Crow aaraxpéahu (“tattooed person”).


Katrine

A female given name from Ancient Greek of Danish origin, occasionally used in English.


Hagar

From Hebrew הָגָר (Hagar, “stranger”). Compare Arabic هَاجَر (hājar), Tiberian Hebrew הָגָר (Hāḡār).


Brangelina

/ˌbɹænd͡ʒəˈlinə/

This tabloid has three separate Brangelina articles.

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, together from 2005 to 2016.


Ariana

Modern simplification of Arianna, Ariane and Arianne, all forms of the Greek name Ariadne ("most holy"; Cretan Greek αρι (ari) "most" and αδνος (adnos) "holy"). There has been some confusion with the similar sounding Adriana and Adrienne.
* By folk etymology also associated with Welsh arian (“silver”).


Goliath

Ultimately from Hebrew גָּלְיָת (golyāṯ).


Navid

From Persian نوید (navid, novid, literally “good news”).

bor

نوید نوید#Persian

A transliteration of the Persian male given name نوید (navid, novid).


Naveed

نوید نوید#Persian


Lidia

A female given name from Ancient Greek, a less common spelling of Lydia.


Aharon

Transliteration of Hebrew אהרן (Ahărōn).


Abundius

Name of an early Italian saint, from Latin abundiantus (“abundant, plentiful”).


Gina

* (name from Greek): Clipping of Georgina.
* (name from Latin): Clipping of Regina.
* (name from Italian): Italian Gina

Coordinate term: George

A diminutive of the female given name Georgina, from Ancient Greek

Coordinate term: Rex

A diminutive of the female given name Regina, from Latin

Coordinate term: Gino

A female given name
A female given name from Italian


Krisa

the language of this village and the surrounding area.


Mongolic

/mɑŋˈɡoʊlɪk/

A major language family spoken primarily in Mongolia and surroundings.


Mongolic

/mɑŋˈɡoʊlɪk/

Of or relating to the Mongolic language family.


Gunners

(informal, soccer) Arsenal football club.


Naved

From Classical Persian نوید (nuwēd, literally “good news”) via Urdu نوید (naved, literally “good news”).

bor

نوید نوید#Persian

A transliteration of the Classical Persian male given name نوید (Nuwēd).

نوید نوید#Urdu

A transliteration of the Urdu male given name نوید (navīd, naved).


Achaius

A male given name of historical usage only.


Micky

A diminutive of the male given name Michael, Mike or Mick.

"What's yor name?" "Micky." "That's a name for a boy or a mouse. So it's probably Michelle. Most women your age are named Michelle or Heather or Courtney." "My age?" "No offense meant." "It's Michelina."

2001, Dean Ray Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 3:

A diminutive of the female given name Michaela or Michelle.


Mickey

A diminutive of the male given names Michael, Mike or Mick.

A diminutive of the female given name Michaela


Abie

A diminutive of the male given name Abraham, from Hebrew.


Abram

en-proper noun

Abram (countable and uncountable, plural Abrams)


Adair

A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, of Scottish usage, equivalent to English Edgar.


Sudip

From Sanskrit, meaning "good light, enlightenment".

A male given name from Sanskrit used in India and Nepal.


Abi

A diminutive of the female given name Abigail.


Ahab

From Middle English Achab, from Latin Achab, from Ancient Greek Ἀχαάβ (Akhaáb), from Hebrew אַחְאָב (ʼAḥʼāḇ, “uncle”); from אַח (ʼaḥ, “brother”) + אָב (ʼāḇ, “father”). Attested in Akkadian as 𒀀𒄩𒀊𒁍 (Aḫabbu).

A male given name from Hebrew, very rarely used.


Abdulmalik

Borrowed from Arabic عَبْدُ المَلِك (ʕabdu l-malik).

bor

عَبْدُ المَلِك


Abdunnasir

From the Arabic عَبْد النَّاصِر (ʕabd an-nāṣir, “servant of the Protector”).

der

عَبْد النَّاصِر


Bashkir

A Turkic language with many dialects, spoken in parts of Russia, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.


Abdullatif

Borrowed from Arabic عَبْد اللَّطِيف (ʕabd al-laṭīf, “servant of the Kind”).

bor

عَبْد اللَّطِيف


Elmer

Medieval variant of the given name Aylmer, from Old English Æþelmǣr, from æþel (“noble”) + mǣre (“famous”).

A male given name from Old English transferred back from the surname in the 19th century U.S.


Alfonzo

A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Alfonso.


Alven

A male given name from Old English, of rare usage, variant of Alvin.


Alfy

A diminutive of the male given names Alfred or Alfonso, from the Germanic languages.


Albie

A diminutive of the male given name Albert, from the Germanic languages.


Aegidius

From Late Latin Aegīdius, from Ancient Greek Αἰγιδιός (Aigidiós, “kid skin”) (sometimes interpreted as “the protecting”).

der

A male given name from Ancient Greek, of historical usage.


Alfie

A diminutive of the male given names Alfred or Alfonso, from the Germanic languages, also used as a formal given name.


Alby

From place names in England. Variant: Albee.

A habitational surname from Old English.


Alby

Anglicized from Irish Ailbhe, name of an Irish saint also anglicized as Albert, and name of heroines in Irish legend.

A female given name from Irish mainly used in Ireland.


Alwyn

A male given name from Old English, of rare usage, variant of Alwin.


Harley Street

After Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (1869-1741).

A street in Westminster having many physicians' practices.


Allistaire

A rare spelling variant of Alistair, from Scottish Gaelic Alasdair (“Alexander”).


Alphonse

From French Alphonse, from Spanish Alfonso, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Aþalafunsaz, from *aþalaz + *funsaz. Doublet of Alfonso.

A male given name from the Germanic languages.


Aleksey

Алексе́й Алексей#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Алексе́й (Alekséj), equivalent to Alexius.


Allister

Anglicized from Alasdair, the Scottish Gaelic form of Alexander


Aleck

A diminutive of the male given name Alexander, from Ancient Greek, of Scottish usage, variant of Alec


Alain

A male given name from French, equivalent to English Alan.


Alastair

From Scottish Gaelic Alasdair (“Alexander”). Doublet of Alexander.


Harley

From Old English hær (“rock”) or hara (“hare”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to hare + -ley (“lea”).

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Alwin

From Old English Æþelwine, from æþel (“noble”) + wine (“friend”); partly merged with Ælfwine (“Alvin”, literally “elf friend”).

A male given name from Old English; always rather rare in English.


Albin

Early saints' name, from the Roman cognomen Albīnus, derivative of Latin albus (“white”). In the case of individuals from Germanic nations, partly also from Germanic (cf. Albwin (literally “elf friend”)), of which Alvin is the native English form.


Elgar

From Old English Ælfgār (from Proto-Germanic *Albigaizaz, equivalent to ælf (“elf”) + gār (“spear”)) and Old English Æþelgār (from Proto-Germanic *Aþalagaizaz, equivalent to æþele (“noble”) + gār (“spear”)).

(rare) A male given name from Old English.


Aleksei

Transliteration of Russian Алексе́й (Alekséj)

transliteration

Алексе́й Алексей#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Алексе́й (Alekséj).


Ashleigh

"You never asked us," replied Ashleigh, his vexation vanishing, [...]

1879, Stephen Watson Fullom, The man of the world; or, Vanities of the lay, page 132:

"Ashleigh!" her mother called. "Could you bring me a wrap for Slewette's leg from the feed room?" "Okay!" Ashleigh let herself out of Wanderer's stall. She'd check back in a little while to see if the mare had finally eaten anything.

1995, Joanna Campbell, Ashleigh's Diary, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 22:

She simply smiled and squeezed Gina's arm, her fingers lingering, burning her skin. “Thanks.” Gina couldn't speak. She just nodded. She finally released Ashleigh, her hands falling away from her.

2010, Gerri Hill, Love Waits, Bella Books, →ISBN:

A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Ashley.


Erasmus

From Medieval Latin Erasmus. The EU student exchange programme is named after Erasmus of Rotterdam, and also a backronym for “European [Community] Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students”.

A male given name from Ancient Greek, rare in English.


Alistair

From Scottish Gaelic Alasdair, from Norman Alexandre or Latin Alexandrus, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros), from ἀλέξω (aléxō, “I defend”) + ἀνδρ- (andr-), the stem of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”).


Arjuna

en-proper noun

Arjuna (countable and uncountable, plural Arjunas)

Transliteration of Sanskrit अर्जुन (arjuna).

translit

A male given name from Sanskrit, popular in South Asia.


Alban

From Latin Albānus (“resident of Alba”) (a mountain region and an ancient city of Latium).

Act II, Scene I
Forsooth, a blind man at Saint Alban's shrine
Within this half hour hath receiv'd his sight


Georges

A male given name from French, equivalent to English George.


Scheherazade

/ʃəˌhɛɹəˈzɑːd(ə)/

/ʃəˈhɛɹəzɑd/

Borrowed from German Scheherazade, from Russian Шехераза́да (Šexerazáda), from Persian شهرازاد (šahrâzâd), alternative form of شهرزاد (šahrzâd, from شهر (šahr, “city”) + ـزاد (-zâd, “child of”), literally “child of the city”).
Popularized by the fictional character below.


Denis

Shall not thou and I, between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a boy, half French, half English, that shall go to Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard?

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

A male given name from Ancient Greek, a mostly British and Irish spelling variant of Dennis.


Yatzachi Zapotec

A variety of Zapotec spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico


Isthmus-Mecayapan Nahuatl

A variety of the Nahuatl language spoken in parts of Mexico.


Classical Nahuatl

The variants of the Nahuatl language spoken in central Mexico at the time of the Spanish colonization.

nàhuatl

variants of the Nahuatl language spoken in Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest


Clint

Diminutive of Clinton.
The Yorkshire place name is from Old Danish klint.


Sheridan

A male given name transferred from the surname.

A female given name transferred from the surname, of uncommon modern usage.

A census-designated place in Placer County, California, United States.

A town in Hamilton County, Indiana, United States.


Haakon

A male given name from Old Norse; that of many kings of Norway.


Maasai

An Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people.


Courtney

en-proper noun

Courtney (countable and uncountable, plural Courtneys)

Variant of Courtenay, an aristocratic Norman surname derived from place names in Normandy, from Latin Curtenus, a personal name from curtus (“short”).

"One girl ten, another one eight. Courtney and Ashley. I'd have named 'em something else. Sara and Diane, Patti and Jill, something like that. I don't even understand girls.

1985, Sue Grafton, B is for Burglar, Macmillan, published 2005, →ISBN, page 125:

A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.

An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Missouri.

An unincorporated community in South Liberty Township, Yadkin County, North Carolina.

Washington County
Washington County#English

A village in Union Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.


Hezekiah

/ˌhɛzəˈkaɪə/

From Hebrew חִזְקִיָּה (chizkiyá, “Hezekiah”).

der

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Michiganian

United States of America
United States of America

A native or resident of the state of Michigan in the United States of America.


Michigander

[ˈmɪ.ʃə.ˌɡæn.dɚ]

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Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, in a speech of July 27, 1848, as pejorative reference to Lewis Cass, Michigan politician:
: There is one entire article of the sort I have not discussed yet; I mean the military tale you Democrats are now engaged in dovetailing onto the great Michigander.
Ostensibly coined as a blend of Michigan + gander (“male goose, simpleton”) (punning on “tale” and “(dove)tail(ing)”). Alternatively from and/or later reanalyzed as Michigan + -d- (epenthetic) + -er (“resident of”).

blend

(US) A native or resident of the state of Michigan in the United States of America.


Noele

A female given name from French, of rare usage, variant of Noelle.


Pascuense

Borrowed from Spanish pascuense, from Pascua + -ense, from Isla de Pascua (“Easter Island”).


Delphine

French form of Latin Delphina, meaning woman from Delphi; Bl. Delphine of Glandèves was a 14th century nun from Provence.

A female given name from French, Latin, or Ancient Greek.


Moldovan

The dialect of Romanian spoken in the Republic of Moldova, which may be written in either the Cyrillic or the Roman alphabet.

The Romanian language (a name used primarily in Moldova).


Meriam

From Mer (“Murray Island”), off the northern coast of Australia.

The Trans-Fly Papuan language of the Meriam people; Meryam Mir.


Cecile

From French Cécile, from Anglo-Norman Cecile, from Latin Caecilia.

[…] so I named my baby Lynn Cecile. My mother asked, "What are you going to call her? You can't call her "Seal" because then I'll think of something slick and wet."

1989, Ann Richards, Peter Knobler, Straight from the Heart: My Life in Politics and Other Places, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 91:


Trey

A male given name from English of modern usage, derived from the nickname.


Santa Cruz

From Spanish and Portuguese Santa Cruz (“Holy Cross”), various places named in honor of the True Cross upon which Jesus was crucified. Doublet of Holy Cross and Saint Croix.

San Francisco del Monte
San Francisco del Monte#English

A barangay of San Francisco del Monte district, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.

A barangay of Cebu City, Metro Cebu, Philippines.

A census-designated place in Pinal County, Arizona, United States.

A locality in Pima County, Arizona, United States.

Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara County#English

An island in Santa Barbara County, California, off the coast, one of the Channel Islands.

A census-designated place in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States; suburb of Santa Fe.

A former census-designated place in Starr County, Texas, United States, now split into the El Chaparral and Santa Rosa CDP's.

A census-designated place in Starr County, Texas, United States, unrelated to the former CDP of the same name.


Isthmus Zapotec

A variety of Zapotec spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico.


Galilean

Originated 1605–15 from Latin Galilaea, from Galilee + -an.


Hadrian

From the Latin Hadrianus (“from the Roman harbor Hadria”), from Etruscan 𐌇𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌉𐌀 (hatria), possibly from Venetic adur (“water”), related to English water, Latin unda and Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr), all from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥. Doublet of Adrian. See Adria.

bor

A male given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Adrian.


Pashtun

Borrowed from Pashto پښتون (pax̌tūn). Doublet of Pathan.

Pashto: the language of the Pashtun ethnic group.


Gus

Clipping of Agustus. From the Latin name Augustus.

A diminutive of the male given name Augustus.


Gus

Clipping of Gustav, Gustave, Gustavus. From the Swedish name Gustav.

A diminutive of the male given name Gustav and its variants.


Gustav

A royal name in Sweden, traditionally explained (even by Gustav I Vasa himself) as Swedish göt + staf "staff (=support) of the Geats (southern Swedes)". But there is no such name in Old Norse, and Gustav is more probably a Swedish rendering of Old Polish / north-west Slavic Gostislav, from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”).

A male given name from the Germanic languages.


Meghan

A female given name from Welsh, a pseudo-Irish spelling of the Welsh Megan.


Thelma

A literary invention, first appeared in the Swedish novel Kyrkoinvigningen i Hammarby (1840-1841) by Emilie Flygare-Carlén, translated into English as "The Magic Goblet" (1845). Similar names of ambiguous origin, Elma, Selma, Velma, appeared in the 19th century.
By folk etymology explained as Ancient Greek θέλημα (thélēma, “will”). Notice also the Spanish and Portuguese Telma, a rare feminine form of Telmo, ultimately from Santelmo or Saint Elmo.

"Just the sort of name to suit a Norwegian nymph or goddess. Thelma is quaint and appropriate, and as far as I can remember there's no rhyme to it in the English language. Thelma!"

1887, Marie Corelli, Thelma, a Norwegian Princess, R. Bentley, published 1896, page 14:

A female given name originating as a coinage.


Sandra

A short form of Alexandra and, less often, of Cassandra.

"Sandra, that's no name for anybody; that was a name for movie stars around 1948. Nobody's used it since. But the fact is, her name really is Sandra. - - - In the mills towns like Torrington and Bristol, the Italians might very well call a girl Sandra for real. Straight. It's just short for Alessandra. Alexandra. So she has numerous choices - she can be Sandy, a clean-cut WASP, or she can be Renaissance Alessandra, or movie-star Sandra, or old-fashioned Edwardian Alexandra, all on the one name."

1971, Hugh Hood, The Fruit Man, the Meat Man & the Manager: Stories, Oberon Press, published 1971, page 23:

A young law student, Sandra Fluke, came before this body, before the Members of Congress, and testified regarding coverage for family planning and contraceptives.

2012 March 7, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, “Women's Access to Health Care”, in Congressional Record, page H1218:


Dieri

A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal suffixing language spoken by the Dieri people in the Lake Eyre region of South Australia.


Matthias

A male given name from Hebrew, derived from the same source as Matthew.


Minneapolitan

en-adj

Minneapolitan (comparative more Minneapolitan, superlative most Minneapolitan)

more Minneapolitan (comparative)
most Minneapolitan (superlative)


Dharuk

The extinct Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal suffixing language, within the Yuin-Kuric group, formerly spoken by people who lived in the Sydney region, from the southern shore of Port Jackson south to Botany Bay and as far inland as Camden and Penrith. Closely related to Dhurga and Thurawal.


Interlingue

An artificial language, most often called Occidental


Raghda

From Arabic رَغْدَة (raḡda, “pleasant, happy life”). The name is more common in North African countries.


Thamar

A female given name from Hebrew. A less common spelling of Tamar.


Denver

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Denver.wav

Denver (disambiguation)
Denver, Colorado
James W. Denver

Named after James W. Denver. The surname Denver ultimately derives from Old English Dene-fær ("crossing or passing of the Danes"), from Dene + fær; or alternatively from den-ōfer ("valley-bank"), from denu + ofer.

A male given name transferred from the place name or surname.


Lara

Anglicized from Ла́ра (Lára), a Russian pet form of Larissa, known from the novel (1957) and film (1965) Dr Zhivago.

Long after the divorce, Moran maintained the habit of giving her name as Lara to the Starbucks baristas. She had once met another Lara at Logan airport, both of them waiting for their coffees, both stepping forward when summoned. The other Lara said her parents had gone through a period of thinking that everything Russian was holy,and had named her Larissa―Lara―after the heroine of a Russian novel. Later, her parents left their hippie-hood behind and gave her younger sisters more normal names: Jennifer, Molly, Aimee.

2014, Yiyun Li, Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel, Random House, →ISBN:


Lule Sami

A Finno-Ugric language spoken in parts of Norway and Sweden.


Inari Sami

A Finno-Ugric, Sami language spoken by 250 people in northern Finland in the region of Inari lake.


trivial name

Trivial names for types of elements, such as "heavy metals", "noble metals", and "rare-earth elements" are terms of convenience, and either do not occur as such in the periodic table or do not form strict, coherent groups in the table. Element 137 (systematic name: untriseptium) is called by the unofficial trivial name "feynmanium", though it will not have an official trivial name until it is discovered.

systematic element name
systematic element name

A non-systematic name for a chemical element (see systematic element name).


Lezghian

A language spoken by the Lezgin people who live in southern Dagestan and northern Azerbaijan.


Jericho

/ˈd͡ʒɛɹɪkəʊ/

/ˈd͡ʒɛɹɪˌkoʊ/

From Middle English Iericho, from Old English Iericho, from Latin Ierīchō, from Ancient Greek Ἰερῑχώ (Ierīkhṓ), from Biblical Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ (yərīḥō), recorded early as Ugaritic 𐎊𐎗𐎃 (yrḫ). Regarding the "place of concealment" sense, see 2 Samuel 10:5.


Southern Sami

A Finno-Ugric language spoken in parts of Norway.


Lezgi

The Northeast Caucasian language spoken by these people


heta

The Ancient Greek letter eta, or variants of it, when used in their original function of denoting the consonant /h/.

heto

variant of the Ancient Greek letter eta when used to denote the consonant /h/


Jasper

A name given to one of the Magi in a medieval European cult, from Biblical Hebrew גִּזְבָּר (gizbar), ultimately from Old Median *ganǰabarah; see it for more.

Her husband is...let me see...oh yes, he's Lord Jasper Jayne. His name sounds like the hero of a servant's novelette, but he doesn't look like that. He looks like a chucker-out in a back-street pub.

1920, St. John Greer Ervine, Changing Winds, Macmillan, page 225:


Jeremias

/ˌd͡ʒɛɹəˈmaɪəs/

New Testament name for the prophet Jeremiah.

A male given name from Hebrew, more common in the forms Jeremy and Jeremiah.


Gail

A female given name, a diminutive of Abigail.


Sparky

From the adjective sparky (“lively, animated”).

You should keep working, driving for whatever goal you have your eye on, while at the same time avoiding a tip over into a workaholic relapse. How?
By becoming a manager, Sparky. The purpose of management is to make other people do the things that need doing, so you can think about strategy and leave early.

2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 122:

A nickname for someone who is lively and animated.


Willis

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Omid

امید امید#Persian

A transliteration of the Persian male given name امید (omid).


Kiput

A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in northern Sarawak on the island of Borneo.


Koepanger

From Koepang + -er, from the older spelling of Kupang, a city in West Timor.

1939, The Works of Ion L. Idriess
Up above, the tender kept a sharp eye on the Koepanger paying out the air-pipe, while attending to the life-line himself and the management of the lugger.

2004, William McGregor, The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia
Pidginised forms of English were also in use between whites and the other ethnic groups employed in the pearling industry, including Malays, Japanese, and Koepangers […]


Anastasius

From Latin Anastasius, from Ancient Greek Ἀναστάσιος (Anastásios), from ἀνάστασις (anástasis, “resurrection”). The name and its more common female counterpart, Anastasia, were originally given to children who were born around Eastertime during the early years of Christianity.

A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use.

Anastasi

a Romanization of Russian Анаста́сий (Anastásij)


Mhairi

From Scottish Gaelic Màiri (“Mary”), which in the vocative case becomes a Mhàiri.

Poor Mhairi Smellie. Her first name, a Scots Gaelic name, was pronounced "vary", which sounded close to very. The name Smellie was common enough in Scotland, but to be called something which sounded like "very smelly" was a singular misfortune, and indicative, surely, of a lack of parental foresight.

2010, Alexander McCall Smith, The Importance of Being Seven, Polygon, →ISBN, page 13:

A female given name from Scottish Gaelic.


Samson

From Middle English Sampson, Sampsoun, Samson, from Latin Samson, from Ancient Greek Σαμψών (Sampsṓn), from Hebrew שִׁמְשׁוֹן.

Hebrew שִׁמְשׁוֹן


Popoloca

Borrowed from Nahuatl popoloca (“speak unintelligibly”).

bor

Any of several different indigenous languages of Mexico, including languages of the Mixe-Zoquean family and the Oto-Manguean family.


juristic

Loan translation of obsolete Dutch juristisch.

(Scots law, South Africa) legal, juridical, pertaining to the law and jurisprudence


Lord's Prayer

He sat down in the middle of the floor, took his chalk out and marked a large ring around him, and round about this he wrote the Lord's Prayer, and then he did not feel afraid even if Old Nick himself should come.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 158:

The prayer which, according to the New Testament of the Bible, Jesus Christ taught his disciples in the Sermon on the Mount.

Onse Vader

the prayer taught by Jesus Christ to his disciples


Stu

A diminutive of the male given name Stuart.


Hussein

A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Husayn


Saddam

Transliteration of Arabic صَدَّام (ṣaddām).

translit

A male given name from Arabic of Arabic usage.

Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi dictator (1979-2003).


Lafayette

en-proper noun

Lafayette (countable and uncountable, plural Lafayettes)

/ˌlɑːfiːˈɛt/

French surname from Occitan, "the little beech tree".

(US, countable) A male given name transferred from the surname, originally in honor of the Marquis.


Canaan

Canaan
Canaan (disambiguation)
Great Vowel Shift
Wycliffe's Bible

Taken (at least as early as Wycliffe's Bible, 1382-1395, which has Chanaan) from Ecclesiastical Latin Chanaān, from Ancient Greek Χαναάν (Khanaán), expanded from Χνᾶ (Khnâ), from Hebrew כְּנַעַן (k'ná'an). The first vowel shifted from /aː/ to /eɪ/ in the Great Vowel Shift; at least as early as Milton (1660s), the word could already be pronounced with two syllables, though at least as late as the 1880s it could also be pronounced with three, /ˈkeɪ.nə.æn/.

(rare) A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Nilotic

From Latin Nīlōticus, from Ancient Greek Νειλώτης (Neilṓtēs, “on the Nile”). Analyzable as Nile + -otic.

der

A group of languages spoken in parts of South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania.


Subaru

en-proper noun

Subaru (countable and uncountable, plural Subarus)

A male or female given name from Japanese.


Aranese

Given that Aranese has only until very recently enjoyed any kind of institutional support, it is by far the most socially marginalized language.

2004, Ryan Furness, “Sociolinguistics and dictionary-making”, in Paz Battaner, Janet Ann DeCesaris, editors, De Lexicografia, Documenta Universitaria, →ISBN, page 408:

Gascon Occitan dialect spoken in Val d'Aran, a small area in northern Catalonia.


Carys

From Welsh Carus, Carys, from caru (“love”).


Achumawi

An anglicization of the name of the Fall River band, ajúmmááwí, from ajúmmá “river”.

The native language spoken by the Pit River people of present-day California.


sidhe

A supernatural creature of Irish and Scottish folklore, living in Sidhe; a fairy.


Miao

With the help of KMT Miao representatives like Shi Honggui, Changsha drew up its plans for a permanent advance into the West: the Reconstruction Program of July 3, 1936, which called on the Miao people to learn Chinese, intermarry with the Han, and give up their traditional sacrifices, “undesirable marriage customs,” and “improper amusements.” The Miao were to be educated, but also pacified and culturally assimilated.

1987, Jeffrey C. Kinkley, “Fighting for Autonomy”, in The Odyssey of Shen Congwen, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 239:

The Miao peoples (including Hmong, Hmu, A-Hmao, Qo Xiong, etc.), an ethnic group of China and Vietnam speaking the Hmong-Mien language family.


Sidhe

From an ellipsis of Irish aos sídhe (people of the fairy mound).

1906, Augusta, Lady Gregory, A Book of Saints and Wonders, Columcille: The Friend of the Angels of God,
Even Nera from the Sidhe could not do it; he is not made much of now; our learned one is not the light of our life now he is hidden away from us.

Mythical hills of Irish and Scottish folklore, home of the sidhe race; fairyland, faerie.


Carson

Could originate from the Gaelic name "Carr" or "Carra", meaning "rock" or "fort," combined with "son", thus "son of Carr.".

A male given name transferred from the surname.

(rare) A female given name transferred from the surname.

Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County#English

A city in Los Angeles County, California.


Hester

A female given name from Persian, used since the 17th century.


Gaulish

From Old English Gallisċ, equivalent to Gaul + -ish. Doublet of Welsh.

Of or pertaining to the Celtic tribes speaking Gaulish languages.


Gaulish

The Celtic language that was spoken in Gaul, long extinct.


LGM

little green man
little green man#English


Hannibal

Hannibal (countable and uncountable, plural Hannibals)

From Latin Hannibal, a rendering of Punic 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋 (ḥnbʿl /ḥannībaʿl/, “May the Lord (Baal) grace me”).

der

A male given name from Punic of mostly historical use. Most notably borne by the Carthaginian general Hannibal, son of Hamilcar.


Frankish

From Frank + -ish. Compare Middle English Frenkisch, Frenkis (“Frankish, French”), Old English Frencisc (“Frankish, French”). More at French.
Doublet of French.

cog

The language of the Franks, an ancient West Germanic language, ancestral to Dutch.


little green man

en-noun

little green man (plural little green men)

[ˌlɪ.ɾɫ̩ ˈɡɹɪ̃i̯m ˌmɛ̃ə̯n̆]

[ˌlɪ.t͡ʔɫ̩ ˈɡɹɪ̃i̯m ˌmãn̆]

[ˌlɘ.ɾɯ ˈɡɹɘ̯ĩm ˌmɛ̞̃n̆]

կանաչ մարդուկ

humorous: space alien, Martian — see also alien

(humorous) One of the supposed extraterrestrial occupants of UFOs.


Crimean

He also thought nothing of laying down a railway in a war zone. For example, he was one of those behind the Grand Crimean Central Railway, built during the Crimean War [...].

2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:

Denoting, of, or related to Crimea, a peninsula on the north of the Black Sea, separating it from the Sea of Azov.