What is the origin of the surname Lear?
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The Lears were a clan or tribe known for making both corporate jets and insightful situation comedy.  The Lear name today is synonymous with these two endeavors.
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All I can find out is that the name Chesher is derived from when a Cresher family lived in Cheshire, first heard outside England was a Thomas Chesher who settled in New England USA. Sorry it`s not much. Hope it help`s
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King Lear is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.   The whole play is about lack of compromise.  \n\nGoneril poisoned her sister Regan and then killed herself.  These sites should be quite helpful to you.  Best of luck with your work.
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The name "Pom" is said to derive from Australia's origins as a convict colony. Each unfortunate transported down under from Britain for his or her (mostly) petty crime was said to be a "Prisoner of Her Majesty" or POHM, later simplified to POM.  \n\nHowever, there is an alternative explanation as  Pom was around a few years before Word War II.  In fact, we first come across it in print during World War I, in 1914, as a derogatory term for an immigrant to Australia from England.  It is a quotation from D.H. Lawrence's Kangaroo in 1923 that gives us the most popularly accepted etymology of this word: "Pommy is supposed to be short for pomegranate. Pomegranate, pronounced invariably 'pommygranate', is a near enough rhyme to immigrant, in a naturally rhyming country. Furthermore, immigrants are known in their first months, before their blood ‘thins down’, by their round and ruddy cheeks. So we are told."  Slang lexicographer Eric Partridge also favors the pomegranate derivation, and he gives a slightly more detailed explanation by quoting from H.J. Rumsey's The Pommies (1920): "Colonial boys and girls, ready to find a nickname, were fond of rhyming Immigrant, Jimmy-grant, Pommegrant, and called it to the new chum children.  The name stuck and became abbreviated to pommy later on."  Partridge also believes that the word was being used as far back as the end of the 19th century.  It is often the case with slang that it is spoken for several years before it is put into writing. Anyhow, the OED is careful to note that there is no good evidence supporting the pomegranate derivation.
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author comes from old French autor, from latin auctor, meaning' an originator.' the original sense in Middle English was " someone who invents or causes something. "
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Origin:  Anglo-Saxon\nMeaning: Dweller by the dark stream.\nOrigin: English\nMeaning: Courtly; courteous.\nOrigin: English\nMeaning: Courtier; court attendant.\nOrigin: French\nMeaning: From the court, or short nose. From the surname of the aristocratic Courtenay family, based on the Old French word meaning short nose. Courtly; courteous.\nOrigin: French\nMeaning: From the court, or short nose. From the surname of the aristocratic Courtenay family, based on the Old French word meaning short nose.\nOrigin: Latin\nMeaning: Born at court. \n\nGood LUCK!
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kaylyn\n\nkayley is a morphed irish name..  caol meaning slender.\nlyn is also from the welsh llyn, which means lake.\n\nthe book i'm looking at doesn't really say much about the italian version of your name, so i'm going to have some fun here!\n\ncara-beloved, dear (from carus)\nlina-bringer of good news (a short form of evangelina)\n\nso maybe...  Caralina?
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Definition: Derived from the Anglo-Saxon "smitan," to smite or strike, SMITH and its derivations are an occupational name for a man who works with metal (smith or blacksmith), one of the earliest jobs for which specialist skills were required. It is a craft that was practiced in all countries, making the surname and its derivations the most common of all surnames.
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"Some authorities believe this name derives from the Germanic name element that ends the names Ermalinde, Gerlinde, and others. However, they do not agree on the meaning of that element -- some citing ''tender'' or ''soft,'' others believing that it refers to the serpent as a Teutonic symbol of wisdom.\nAn alternate theory holds that it developed as a short form of the English names Belinda and Melinda. "
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Here is a web address for an etymology  of the letter Q.   http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=q    It doesn't have a whole lot of info on it.   You can try using the entertainment industry.  There is Q magazine.  Q is a character in James Bond movies.  Q was Jean Luc Piccard's antagonist on Star Trek the Next Generation.  There is the Q vitamin.  Use your browser and just type Q and click on go.  \n\nGood Luck.
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From the Roman family name Marinus, which derives either from the name MARIUS or from the Latin word marinus "of the sea".\n\nLatinate form of MARY. This was the name of several queens of Portugal. It was also borne by the 18th-century Habsburg queen Maria Theresa, whose inheritance of the domains of her father, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, began the War of the Austrian Succession.
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The surname Lawson is taken from 'Law' and denotes someone who is the 'son of law'. The most likely source of the name is either from the name Lawrence believed to have originated from a person who lived near a laurel tree or from the Old English word hlaw meaning a hill and therefore a person 'the son of who lived on or near the hill'.
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Even if sounds close to Bourne I couldn't find the etymology.\nThere is nevertheless loooong list of names that sounds close.\nHave a look here:\nhttp://www.behindthename.com/php/search.php?terms=borne&nmd=n&gender=both&operator=or
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It is the origin of the word and the meaning behind it\n\n"abbreviation  \n1460, from M.Fr. abréviation, from L.L. abbreviationem (nom. abbreviatio), from pp. of abbreviare "make brief," from L. ad "to" + breviare "shorten," from brevis "short, low, little, shallow" (see brief (adj.)). "
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because they were named by the greeks and romans. The Egyptians had names for them too, but since english is based on latin, we get most of our "stuff" from the Latin speaking Romans.
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origin: English\n\nThe name Datts is tied to the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of England.  It comes from the baptismal name Dade.  This old English personal name was originally derived from the Old English word daed, when translated means a deed or an exploit.  Baptismal names began to appear as surnames relatively late in the growth of the naming tradition.  This is a little surprising, given the popularity of biblical figures in the Christian countries of Europe. Nevertheless, surnames derived from baptismal names grew in popularity during the Middles Ages, and have become one of the foremost sources for surnames.\n\nSpelling Variations include: Dade, Dadey, Dady, and others\n\n\nSome of the first settlers of this name or some of it variates were: John Dade who settled in Virginia is 1676; William Dade settled in Charlestown Mass. in 1630; Dorothy Dadey settled in Salem Mass. in 1630; wife of William
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This is a last name. It's origin is Scottish.\nDefinition: 1) One who came from the district of Buchanan, a location near Loch Lomond in Scotland. From the Gaelic elements buth, meaning "house" and chanain, meaning "of the canon." \nDefinition: 2) An anglicization of the German buchenhain, meaning "beech wood."