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Ball (surname)
Ball is an English surname that has multiple potential origins, as do many short surnames: * one origin suggests that ''Ball'' is a shortened form, a "favorite contraction", of the given name ''Baldwin'', dating "from Norman times" * another purported origin is related to living near a "knoll or rounded hill" * the surname may also descend from the Old Norse personal name "Balle" * it could be a toponymic surname, related to Ball, Cornwall, England According to Bowman, ''Ball'' and related names had only "limited application as personal names and that generally they have come into existence as nicknames." List of people with the surname Arts and music ''see Writing and education below for writers'' *Alan Ball (screenwriter) (born 1957) *Angeline Ball (born 1969), actor *Ashleigh Ball (voice actress) (born 1983), Canadian voice actor and musician *Christopher Ball (born 1936), British composer *David Ball (electronic musician) (born 1959), English electronic musician (usually know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
