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Ernest Weekley. The Romance of Names
The Romance of Names
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I OF SURNAMES IN GENERAL
CHAPTER II A MEDIEVAL ROLL
CHAPTER III SPELLING AND SOUND
CHAPTER IV BROWN, JONES, AND ROBINSON
CHAPTER V THE ABSORPTION OF FOREIGN NAMES
CHAPTER VI TOM, DICK AND HARRY
CHAPTER VII GODERIC AND GODIVA
CHAPTER VIII PALADINS AND HEROES
CHAPTER X METRONYMICS
CHAPTER XI LOCAL SURNAMES
CHAPTER XIII THE HAUNTS OF MAN
CHAPTER XIV NORMAN BLOOD
CHAPTER XV OF OCCUPATIVE NAMES
CHAPTER XVI A SPECIMEN PROBLEM: RUTTER
CHAPTER XVII THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS
CHAPTER XIX HODGE AND HIS FRIENDS
CHAPTER XXII ADJECTIVAL NICKNAMES
CHAPTER XXIII BIRDS, BEASTS, AND FISHES
By Ernest Weekley, M.A
AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF MODERN ENGLISH
THE ROMANCE OF WORDS
SURNAMES
Works by Henry Cecil Wyld
SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH
THE HISTORICAL STUDY OF THE MOTHER TONGUE
MURRAY'S ENGLISH LITERATURE SERIES
Popular Editions of Mr. Murray's Standard Works
Mr. Murray's Standard Works
Отрывок из книги
Ernest Weekley
Published by Good Press, 2019
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After all, truth is stranger than fiction. There is quite enough legitimate cause for wonderment in the fact that Tyas is letter for letter the same name as Douch, or that Strangeways, from a district in Manchester which, lying between the Irwell and the Irk, formerly subject to floods, is etymologically strong-wash. The Joannes Acutus whose tomb stands in Florence is the great free-lance captain Sir John Hawkwood, "omitting the h in Latin as frivolous, and the k and w as unusual" (Verstegan, Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, ch. ix), which makes him almost as unrecognizable as that Peter Gower, the supposed founder of freemasonry, who turned out to be Pythagoras.
ALTERNATIVE ORIGINS
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