GLOSSARY OF CHRISTIAN NAMES.

The names here given are referred, as far as possible, first to the language in which the form occurs, then to their root.

The original names, in their primary form, are in capitals, the shapes they have since assumed are in Roman type, the contractions in italics. A table is here given of the main stems and branches, with the abbreviations used for them in the glossary.

Hebrew
  (Heb.)		 { Modern Jew (Jew.)
Aramæan (Aram.)
Ancient Persian
  (Zend)		 { Persian (Pers.)
Greek
  (Gr.)		 { Modern Greek (Mod. Gr.)
Russian (Russ.)
         
Latin
  (Lat.)		 { Italian (It.)
Venetian (Ven.)
Spanish (Span.)
Portuguese (Port.)
Provençal (Prov.)
Wallachian (Wall.)
French (Fr.)
Keltic
  (Kelt.)		 { Cymric
  (Cym.)		 { Ancient British
  (Brit.)
Welsh
Breton
  (Bret.)
Cornish
  (Corn.)
Gadhaelic
  (Gad.)		 { Ancient Irish
  (Erse)
Modern Irish Dialect
  (Ir.)
Gaelic
  (Gael.)
Scottish
  (Scot.)
Manx
Teutonic
  (Teu.)		 { Northern
  (Nor.)		 { Icelandic
  (Ice.)
Norwegian
   (Nor.)
Swedish
  (Swed.)
Danish
  (Dan.)
Norman
  (Norm.)
Anglo-Saxon
  (A.S.)		 { English
  (Eng.)
Scottish
  (Scot.)
Frisian
  (Fris.)
Dutch
Irish
American
  (Am.)
Old German
  (O.G.)		 { German
  (Ger.)
Bavarian
  (Bav.)
Hamburgh
  (Ham.)
Dantzig
  (Dan.)
Swiss
Frank   French
Gothic
  (Goth.)		 { Spanish  (Span.)
Portuguese
  (Port.)
Lombardic
  (Lomb.)
 { Italian
  (It.)
Slavonic { Russian (Russ.)
Slovak (Slov.)
Bohemian (Bohm.)
Polish
Hungarian (Hung.)
Lithuanian (Lith.)
Lettish (Lett.)
Illyrian (Ill.)

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