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History of Christian names

Chapter 1: HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN NAMES
By Charlotte M. Yonge
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This work presents a systematic survey of given Christian names, tracing their origins, meanings, and shifting forms across languages and regions. It groups names by linguistic families—Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Germanic, Celtic, and Scandinavian—and by semantic classes, and explains how phonetic change, religious devotion to saints, migration, and local traditions affected popularity and variants. The author combines etymology, folklore, hagiography, and comparative philology to show how names spread, adapt, and decline, and includes exemplifying entries, glossaries, and reference tables to aid readers in following patterns of naming, transmission, and cultural influence.

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Title: History of Christian names

Author: Charlotte M. Yonge

Release date: March 30, 2023 [eBook #70419]

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Macmillan and Co, 1884

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Transcriber’s Note:

Footnotes have been collected at the end of each section, and are linked for ease of reference.

The alphabetic portion of the Glossary (pp. xviii–cxliii), which serves as an Index, was printed in two columns, which cannot be duplicated in a ‘pageless’ medium. Nearly all entries reference the physical page in the main section of the volume where it is discussed, and are linked for navigation.

Tables that fell within a paragraph are moved to the nearest paragraph break.

Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation.

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HISTORY

OF

CHRISTIAN NAMES

HISTORY
OF
CHRISTIAN NAMES
BY
CHARLOTTE M. YONGE,
AUTHOR OF “THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE,” “UNKNOWN TO HISTORY,” ETC. ETC.
NEW EDITION, REVISED.
London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1884
[All rights reserved.]
LONDON
R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS,
BREAD STREET HILL.