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Charnock, Richard Stephen
Ludus patronymicus
The etymology of curious surnames

Ludus patronymicus; or, The etymology of curious surnames

by Charnock, Richard Stephen, 1820-1904 or 5

Publication date 1868

Topics Names, Personal -- English, Onomastics, English language -- Etymology Names

Publisher London, Trübner & co.

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Lower, Mark Antony
Patronymica Britannica
Dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom

Patronymica Britannica : Dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom (dictionnaire des noms de famille du Royaume-Uni) par Mark Antony Lower (1860)

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Charnock, Richard Stephen
Ludus patronymicus
The etymology of curious surnames

Ludus patronymicus : The etymology of curious surnames, par Richard Stephen Charnock (1868)

Banting (W3)

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"Banting" is a type of the common patronymic surname, that is, a last name arising from the name of the father. In Anglo-Saxon, now called Old English, patronymics were often formed by adding "-ing" to the stem of the father's name. Thus English has surnames like "Carling" 'son of an Anglo-Saxon named Carl' and "Keeping" 'son of The Keep', that is, of a person who looked after the keep of a castle, and was probably the jailor who by metonymy would have a nickname like "Keep" or "The Keep" or later "John the Keep" (for "John the Jailer").

"Metonymy" labels a figure of speech in which the name of an attribute or adjunct of a thing is substituted for the name of the thing itself; for example, referring to "the turf" for "horse racing", to "the crown" for "king", to "the stage" or "the boards" for "theatrical profession", to "the bench" for "judiciary". "Metonymy" adds variety and colour to speech and writing, and is a frequently used ploy in the metaphorical bag-of-tricks of most languages. In the making of English last names, metonymy was a frequent source of nicknames and then later of surnames.

"Banting" is a patronymic that means "son of an Anglo-Saxon named Bando or Banto". The Germanic first name "Bando" is related to our modern English word "band" = "strip of material" and "Bant" in Old High German which meant "tie", "bond", "connection". "Banto" was a common and widespread Germanic first name. Variants of it show up in Italy, Corsica, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Russia.

One remote possibility is the origin of "Banting" as an Englishing of a Norman-French surname, "Bantegny", itself taken from the French place name "Bantigny", a district in the city of Cambrai in northern France. The district took its name from a Gallo-Roman first name, "Bantinius", which is merely a Latinizing of the Germanic name "Banto". The swirling mutability of European political boundaries throughout medieval history is mirrored in the transborder ebb and flow of the words used for names. Down through the centuries names hop back and forth over customs barriers like Olympic crickets.

© 2012 copyright William Gordon Casselman
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British Surnames (W3)
First-names, Localities, Occupations, Nicknames

• i) Those taking - or based on - the first name of the ancestor's father (patronymic).
• ii) Those recording localities or places where ancestors originated.
• iii) Names reflecting the occupation or status of the ancestor.
• iv) Surnames that are nicknames describing the ancestor's face, figure, temper, morals, or habits.

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Charnock, Richard Stephen
Patronymica Cornu-Britannica
Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de famille corniques

Patronymica Cornu-Britannica : dictionnaire étymologique des noms de famille corniques, par Richard Stephen Charnock (1870)

Harrison (W3)

Hughes (W3)

Jenks (W3)

Patronym (W3)

"patronym" (n.): "a patronymic name," 1834, from Greek "patronymos" "named from the father" (see "patronymic").

Patronymic
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Origins of terms

The usual noun and adjective in English is "patronymic", but as a noun this exists in free variation alongside "patronym". The first part of the word "patronym" comes from Greek "pater" 'father' (GEN "patros" whence the combining form "patro-"); the second part comes from Greek "onyma", a variant form of "onoma" 'name'. In the form "patronymic", this stands with the addition of the suffix "-ikos", which was originally used to form adjectives with the sense 'pertaining to' (thus 'pertaining to the father's name'). These forms are attested in Hellenistic Greek as "patronymos" and "patronymikos".

The form "patronym", first attested in English in 1834, was borrowed into English from French "patronyme", which had previously borrowed the word directly from Greek.

"Patronymic", first attested in English in 1612, has a more complex history. Both Greek words had entered Latin, and, from Latin, French. The English form patronymic was borrowed through the mutual influence of French and Latin on English.
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"patronym" (PA-truh-nim) noun

• 1. A name derived from the name of father or an ancestor, e.g. "Johnson" ("son of John").
• 2. A surname or family name.

[From Greek "patronymous" ("patronymic"), from "patri-" ("father") + "-onym" ("name").]

Here are a few more patronyms from other languages and cultures:

• Arabic "bin" ("bin Laden", "son of Laden"), "bint" ("Bint Ahmed", "daughter of Ahmed")
• Hebrew "ben" ("Ben-Gurion", "son of Gurion"; "Ben-Hur", "son of Hur")
• Hindi "-putra"/"put" ("Brahmaputra", "son of Brahma"; "Rajput", "son of king")
• Irish and Scottish "Mac" / "Mc" ("McDonald", "son of Donald")
• Irish "O" ("O'Brien", "grandson/descendant of Brien")
• Norman "Fitz-" ("Fitzgerald", "son of Gerald")
• Russian "-ich" / "-vich", as a middle name ("Anton Pavlovich Chekhov", "son of Pavel").
• Spanish "-ez" ("Fernandez", "son of Fernando"; "Gonzalez", "son of Gonzalo")
• Welsh "ap" or "p" ("Pritchard" from "ap Richard", "son of Richard").

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patronymic (W3)

"patronymic", adjective

• (of family names) derived from the name of a father or ancestor, especially by the addition of a suffix or prefix indicating descent.
• (of a suffix or prefix) indicating descent.

"patronymic", noun

• a patronymic name, as Williamson (son of William) or Macdonald (son of Donald).
• a family name; surname.

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ORIGIN OF "PATRONYMIC"

via Late Latin from Greek "patronumikos", from "pater" = "father" + "onoma" = "name".

Williams
Wilhelm
Guillaume (W3)

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3. "Guillemet" et "Guillotin" sont deux diminutifs de "Guillaume". Le premier est le nom de l’imprimeur qui inventa les "guillemets", et le second celui d’un médecin qui, semble-t-il, inventa la "guillotine".

Quant au nom de "la williams", variété de poire, il est dérivé du prénom "William", l’équivalent anglais "de Guillaume". "Williams", avec un "s" à la fin, était le patronyme du jardinier du XVIIe s. ou de l’instituteur du XVIIIe – on ne sait pas très bien – à qui les Anglais doivent ce fruit venu de Calabre via la France.

L'élément "wil" de "William" et "Wilhem", devenu "Guil" dans "Guillaume", est issu d'une racine "*WEL-" = "vouloir", "volonté".
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Charnock, Richard stephen
Patronymica Cornu-Britannica
The Etymology of Cornish Surnames

Patronymica Cornu-Britannica; or, The etymology of Cornish surnames

by Richard Stephen Charnock

Charnock, Richard Stephen
Ludus Patronymicus
The Etymology of Curious Surnames

Ludus Patronymicus: Or, The Etymology of Curious Surnames

by Richard Stephen Charnock

Lower, Mark A. - PB
Patronymica Britannica
A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom

Patronymica Britannica, a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom