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Howard (surname)
Howard is a common English language, English surname. One source for this surname is with the Gaelic names Ó hOghartaigh and Ó hIomhair. Other origins also exist. The dominant theory pertains to the France, French personal names ''Huard (other), Huard'' and ''Houard'' adapted after the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is from a Germanic source similar to Old High German ''*Hugihard'' "heart-brave," or ''*Hoh-ward'', literally "high defender; chief guardian." Also probably in some cases a confusion with cognate Viking Age#British Isles, Anglo-Scandinavian personal name ''Haward'' from ''Hávarðr'', which means ''ha(r)'' "high" (or ''hǫð'' "battle") and element ''varðr'', meaning "guardian", and sometimes also with unrelated Hayward. In some rare cases from Old English ''eowu hierde'' "ewe herd." In Anglo-Norman language, Anglo-Norman the French digramm ''-ou-'' was often rendered as ''-ow-'' such as ''couard'' → ''coward'', ''tour'' → ''tower'', ''flour'' (western vari ... [...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] |
