Owen (surname)
Owen is usually an anglicised variant of the Welsh personal name . Originally a patronymic, Owen became a fixed surname in Wales beginning with the reign of Henry VIII. Etymologists consider it to originate from ''Eugene'' meaning 'noble-born'. According to T. J. Morgan and Prys Morgan in ''Welsh Surnames'': "the name is a derivation of the Latin > OW , ... variously written in MW as , , . LL gives the names , , , . The corresponding form in Irish is ." Morgan and Morgan note that there are less likely alternative explanations, and agree with Rachel Bromwich that Welsh "is normally latinised as ", and that both the Welsh and Irish forms are Latin derivatives. The Welsh name is a cognate and near-homonym of the Irish name (pronounced /'oːəun/, partially anglicised as , as noted by Morgan and Morgan, among other spellings). As such, the given name Owney is usually regarded as a diminutive of either ''Owen'' or ''Eoghan''. However, another Irish name, (/ˈuənʲ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Welsh Name
Fixed surnames were adopted in Wales from the 15th century onwards. Until then, the Welsh had a patronymic naming system. History In 1292, 48 per cent of Welsh names were patronymics and, in some parishes, over 70 per cent. Other names were derived from nicknames, a few non-hereditary personal names and, rarely, occupational names. Patronymic names changed from generation to generation, with a person's baptismal name being linked by ''ap'', ''ab'' (son of) or ''ferch'' (daughter of) to the father's baptismal name. For example, Evan, son of Thomas, would be known as Evan (ap) Thomas; Evan's son, John, would be John (ab) Evan; and John's son Rees would be Rees (ap) John. Patronymics could be extended with names of grandfathers and earlier ancestors, to perhaps the seventh generation. Names such as Llewelyn ap Dafydd ab Ieuan ap Gruffudd ap Meredydd were not uncommon. Those extended patronymics were essentially a genealogical history of the male line. The ''Encyclopaedia of Wale ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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French Name
French names typically consist of one or multiple given names, and a surname. Usually one given name and the surname are used in a person’s daily life, with the other given names used mainly in official documents. Middle names, in the English sense, do not exist. Initials are not used to represent second or further given names. Traditionally, most French people were given names from the Roman Catholic calendar of saints. However, given names for French citizens from immigrant communities are often from their own culture, and in modern France it has become increasingly common to use first names of (international) English or other foreign origin. Almost all traditional given names are gender-specific. Females are often given names that are feminine forms of traditional masculine French names. The prevalence of given names follows trends, with some names being popular in some years, and some considered out-of-fashion. Compound given names are not uncommon. (The second part may be ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chris Owen (director)
Chris Owen (1944 – 9 March 2018) was an Australian filmmaker, who specialised in ethnographic documentary films about Papua New Guinea and its inhabitants. He served as director of the film unit of the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies in Port Moresby and has played a significant role in the creation of most documentaries about New Guinea since 1980. Filmography Owen's 1984 film ''Tukana'' (also called ''What Went Wrong?'') was not a documentary, but a fictionalised feature film about the problems facing young people in the Bougainville Province. His 1990 film ''Man Without Pigs'' was about John Waiko (who would go on to become the PNG foreign minister from 2000 to 2001) returning to his home village to take part in a traditional ritual after receiving a PhD from the University of Papua New Guinea. The film was about the complexities of village politics, and the pressures and expectations placed on Waiko in a community where wealth and status are measured by the number of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chris Owen (actor)
Chris Owen (born ) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Chuck Sherman, a.k.a.The Sherminator in the '' American Pie film franchise'', appearing in '' American Pie'', ''American Pie 2'', '' American Pie Presents: Band Camp'' and ''American Reunion''. Aside from Eugene Levy, he is the only actor from the theatrical features to appear in the "''American Pie Presents:''" direct-to-video spin-off movies. Life and career Owen began acting as early as age ten, with his first recorded film credit in ''Le peloton d'exécution'' (1991), a French-Canadian film. After that, he appeared in numerous films of the 1990s, like ''Major Payne'', '' Black Sheep'', ''Can't Hardly Wait'', ''She's All That'', ''October Sky'', and the 1995 film ''Angus'', the first of five films with longtime friend and collaborator Charlie Talbert. In 1999, Owen appeared in the hit comedy film '' American Pie'' as Chuck Sherman, a teenager that boasts himself of being a "ladies man" and goes by " ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Brad Owen
Bradley Scott Owen (born May 23, 1950) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 15th Lieutenant Governor of Washington from 1997 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was previously elected to the Washington State Legislature from 1977 to 1997, spending six years in the Washington House of Representatives and fourteen years in the Washington State Senate. Biography Owen was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington. He was a small business owner before entering politics. He was elected as Shelton City Finance Commissioner and to the Washington House of Representatives in 1976 and served in those capacities until 1983, when he was elected to the Washington State Senate. In 1989, he formed a non-profit organization called Strategies for Youth, first as a way to fight substance abuse among Washington's young people and later with a greater emphasis on bullying and respecting diversity. The program concluded in 2011. In 1996, Owen moved from the legislature to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bill Owen (baseball)
Bill Owen was the head baseball coach at the University of Oklahoma from 1923 until 1926. During his tenure, the Sooners won 42 games and two conference championships. Owen was the brother of Bennie Owen Benjamin Gilbert Owen (July 24, 1875 – February 26, 1970) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Washburn College, now Washburn University, in 1900, at Bethany C ... who served as the Sooners head football and men's basketball coach. Head coaching record References * * * Oklahoma Sooners baseball coaches Year of death missing Year of birth missing {{Oklahoma-sport-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bill Owen (actor)
William John Owen Rowbotham, (14 March 1914 – 12 July 1999) was an English actor and songwriter. He was the father of actor Tom Owen. He is best known for portraying Compo Simmonite in the Yorkshire-based BBC comedy series ''Last of the Summer Wine'' for over a quarter of a century. He died on 12 July 1999, his last appearance on-screen being shown in April 2000. Early life and career Born at Acton Green, London to a working-class family (his father a staunchly left-wing tram-driver), Owen made his first film appearance in 1945, but did not achieve lasting fame until 1973, when he took the co-starring role of William "Compo" Simmonite in the long-running British sitcom ''Last of the Summer Wine''. Compo is a scruffy working-class pensioner, often exploited by the bossy characters played by Michael Bates, Brian Wilde, Michael Aldridge and Frank Thornton for dirty jobs, stunts and escapades, while their indomitably docile friend Norman Clegg, played by Peter Sallis, follow ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Beverley Owen
Beverley Owen (née Ogg; May 13, 1937 – February 21, 2019) was an American television actress, best known for having played the original role of Marilyn Munster on the sitcom ''The Munsters'' before the role was taken over by Pat Priest. Early life Beverley Jane Ogg was born on May 13, 1937, in Ottumwa, Iowa. She was the first born child of Wallace E. Ogg and Charlotte M. Vander Ploeg. She grew up in Ames, Iowa, where her father was a professor of agricultural economics at Iowa State University. Her mother died in 1953. Career In 1956, Owen appeared in her first TV role in ''As the World Turns''. Owen appeared on the shows '' The Doctors'', '' Kraft Mystery Theatre'', '' The Virginian'', ''Wagon Train'', and '' Another World'', and in the 1964 feature film ''Bullet for a Badman'', starring Audie Murphy, after which she got the role of Marilyn Munster on ''The Munsters''. In 1972, she played Dr. Paula McCrea for nine months in the soap opera '' Another World''. Personal ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Amanda Owen
Amanda Owen (born September 1974) is an English shepherd, writer and presenter. Biography Owen lives and farms on a remote farm, Ravenseat Farm, in Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales with her husband Clive Owen and their nine children: Raven, Reuben, Miles, Edith, Violet, Sidney, Annas, Clementine and Nancy. Owen first gained attention through her Twitter feed as "The Yorkshire Shepherdess", and has subsequently written five books: # ''The Yorkshire Shepherdess'' #''A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess'' ''A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess'' (2017, Sidgwick & Jackson, ) # ''Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess'' (2019, Sidgwick & Jackson, ) #''Tales From the Farm''(2021, Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-5290-7475-8) #''Celebrating The Seasons'' (28 October 2021, ) In August 2017 she appeared on BBC Radio 4's ''The Museum of Curiosity''. Her hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was a shepherd's whistle, used to communicate with her sheep dogs. On 14 Ju ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alfred Owen (footballer, Born 1880)
Alfred George Owen (1880–unknown) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for West Bromwich Albion West Bromwich Albion Football Club () is an English professional football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football. The club was formed in 1878 and has pl .... References 1880 births English men's footballers Men's association football forwards English Football League players West Bromwich Albion F.C. players Walsall F.C. players Year of death missing People from Coalbrookdale Footballers from Shropshire {{England-footy-forward-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Folk Etymology
Folk etymology (also known as popular etymology, analogical reformation, reanalysis, morphological reanalysis or etymological reinterpretation) is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one. The form or the meaning of an archaic, foreign, or otherwise unfamiliar word is reinterpreted as resembling more familiar words or morphemes. The term ''folk etymology'' is a loan translation from German language, German ''Volksetymologie'', coined by Ernst Förstemann in 1852. Folk etymology is a Productivity (linguistics), productive process in historical linguistics, language change, and social relation, social interaction. Reanalysis of a word's history or original form can affect its spelling, pronunciation, or meaning. This is frequently seen in relation to loanwords or words that have become archaic or obsolete. Examples of words created or changed through folk etymology include the English dialectal form wikt:sparrowgrass ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Old French
Old French (, , ; Modern French: ) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France from approximately the 8th to the 14th centuries. Rather than a unified language, Old French was a linkage of Romance dialects, mutually intelligible yet diverse, spoken in the northern half of France. These dialects came to be collectively known as the , contrasting with the in the south of France. The mid-14th century witnessed the emergence of Middle French, the language of the French Renaissance in the Île de France region; this dialect was a predecessor to Modern French. Other dialects of Old French evolved themselves into modern forms (Poitevin-Saintongeais, Gallo, Norman, Picard, Walloon, etc.), each with its own linguistic features and history. The region where Old French was spoken natively roughly extended to the northern half of the Kingdom of France and its vassals (including parts of the Angevin Empire, which during the 12th century remained under Anglo-Norman rul ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |