Category: History - Other
As some things that seem common, and even ignoble, to the naked eye, lose their meanness under the revelations of the microscope, so, many of our surnames that seem common and even vulgar at first sight, will be found, when their origin is adequately investigated, to be of hig...
As some things that seem common, and even ignoble, to the naked eye, lose their meanness under the revelations of the microscope, so, many of our surnames that seem common and e...
6. Chapter IV.[4] So that we may take it that Virgilius, as the name of a Scot who became bishop of Salzburg in the time of Boniface, was his own genuine Celtic name, and not derived from tha...
7. CHAPTER II.So long as our surnames are treated as if each name were something standing apart by itself, very little progress can be made in their elucidation; it is by collation and compar...
8. CHAPTER III.The subject of the relative antiquity of simple names (_i.e._ those formed from one single word) and of compound names is one which has occupied a good deal of the attention of...
9. CHAPTER IV.The researches of Mr. Kemble, supplemented by those of Mr. Taylor, in connection with the early Saxon settlements in England, have an important bearing upon the subject of our e...
10. CHAPTER V.We have seen in a preceding chapter that the earliest Saxon place-names in England are derived from a personal name, and that the idea contained is that of a modified form of co...
11. CHAPTER VI.Corruptions may be divided broadly into two kinds, those which proceed from a desire to improve the sound of a name, and those which proceed from a desire to make some kind of s...
12. CHAPTER VII.To any one who takes note of the large proportion of French Christian names which are of German origin, the question, one would think, might naturally suggest itself--If such be...
13. CHAPTER VIII.The successive waves of German invasion that swept over Italy, leaving their record in the name of one of its fairest provinces, while they added a few German words to the langu...
14. CHAPTER IX.In the present chapter I propose to include a few stems which were not taken into account in my previous work, or respecting which I may have something more to say.
15. CHAPTER XIt follows inevitably that, among the multitude of names such as are included within the scope of this work, there must be many which, though being of ancient origin, accidental...
16. CHAPTER XI.The names of women, so far as they are of German origin, enter into the Teutonic system precisely as do the names of men, and there is, as far as I know, no instance of a stem u...