Family Names from the Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Scotch Considered in Relation to Their Etymology, with Brief Remarks
>!> ^•' /> 1^ Presented to the LIBRARIES of the UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO by LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY OF ONTARIO Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from University of Toronto http://www.archive.org/details/familynamesfrdmiOOgent — Family Names ^.MJ FROM THE VlaM<a^ IRISH, ANGLO-SAXON, ANGLO-NORMAN AND SCOTCH Considered in Relation to their Etymology, Brief Remarks on the History and Languages —OF THE Peoples to Whom we are Indebted for their Origin. BY THOMAS G. GENTRY, Author of "Life-Histories of Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania," "The House Spakrow," " Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States," etc. PHILADELPHIA: BURK & McFETRIDGE. 1892. y0^^'' <-. — NOV ) (( u iiouiJI Copyright, 1892, — BY THOMAS G. GENTRY PREFACE. In all ages and localities of the world names, implying some one or more characteristics of person, feature, faith, place or event, were conferred by people, especially by those of defective education and rude, unpolished manners. The nations of antiquity appear to have set the example, for the Hebrews had their "Adam," which meant " red earth," their " Elizabeth," "the oath of God," and the Greeks their " Theophilus," "the friend of God." Scriptural names, and those of a purely classical character, have been studied with less difficulty. Every Hebrew name has been fully discussed and exam- ined by the best scholars, and the Greek have received the same amount of careful consideration. Not so with the Latin. While much of value and interest have been gleaned through patient study and investigation, yet there is a great deal that must forever remain doubtful and inexplicable. Ripe German philologists have given full attention to the numerous race of German appellations, the Scandinavian class having been most ably treated in a series of articles to the Norsk Maandeskrifts from the pen of Prof.
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