What is the name meaning of GERMAN. Phrases containing GERMAN
See name meanings and uses of GERMAN!GERMAN
GERMAN
Surname or Lastname
English, German, and Swiss German
English, German, and Swiss German : variant of German.German : variant of Gehrmann.
Surname or Lastname
German and Dutch
German and Dutch : from a pet form of the personal name Thomas.English : unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
German and Dutch
German and Dutch : from the personal name Matthias (see Matthew).English (chiefly Wales) : learned variant of Matthew.Greek : variant of Mathias.
Surname or Lastname
North German
North German : from a short form of the personal name Bartholomäus (see Bartholomew).English : habitational name from Meaux (pronounced ‘Myoos’) in Humberside, formerly in East Yorkshire. This was named in Old Norse as ‘sandbank pool’, from melr ‘sandbank’, ‘sandhill’ + sær ‘sea’, ‘lake’, and subsequently assimilated by folk etymology to a French place name.
Surname or Lastname
English, German, Dutch, and Jewish
English, German, Dutch, and Jewish : from the personal name Michael, ultimately from Hebrew Micha-el ‘Who is like God?’. This was borne by various minor Biblical characters and by one of the archangels, the protector of Israel (Daniel 10:13, 12:1; Rev. 12:7). In Christian tradition, Michael was regarded as the warrior archangel, conqueror of Satan, and the personal name was correspondingly popular throughout Europe, especially in knightly and military families. In English-speaking countries, this surname is also found as an Anglicized form of several Greek surnames having Michael as their root, for example Papamichaelis ‘Michael the priest’ and patronymics such as Michaelopoulos.
Surname or Lastname
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a cutler, from Middle High German mezzer ‘knife’, from Old High German mezzirahs, mezzisahs, a compound of maz ‘food’, ‘meat’ + sahs ‘knife’, ‘sword’. The Jewish name is from German Messer ‘knife’ or Yiddish meser.German : occupational name for an official in charge of measuring the dues paid in kind by tenants, from an agent derivative of Middle High German mezzen ‘to measure’.English and Scottish : occupational name for someone who kept watch over harvested crops, Middle English, Older Scots mess(i)er, from Old French messier (see Messier).
Surname or Lastname
German (Mäule)
German (Mäule) : variant of Maul 1.English : variant of Maul 2.
Surname or Lastname
Americanized form of German Möller (see Moeller).German
Americanized form of German Möller (see Moeller).German : habitational name for someone from Melle.German, Jewish (Ashkenazic), and Polish : occupational name for a miller or flour merchant, from an agent derivative of German Mehl ‘flour’.English : variant of Miller.
Surname or Lastname
German
German : from a variant of the personal name Matthäus (see Matthew).English : from a variant of the personal name Matthew.
Surname or Lastname
English, German, and Dutch
English, German, and Dutch : patronymic from the personal name Michael.
Surname or Lastname
German
German : topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow, from Matte 1 + -er, suffix denoting an inhabitant.English and Dutch : occupational name for a maker of mats, from an agent derivative of Middle English matte, Middle Dutch mat ‘mat’.
Surname or Lastname
German
German : nickname for someone with a deformed mouth, or for someone who made excessive use of the mouth in eating, drinking, or talking, from Middle High German mūl ‘mouth’.German : possibly a nickname from Middle High German mūl ‘mule’.English : from Mall, a medieval pet form of the female personal name Mary (see Marie 1).
Male
Italian
Italian form of Roman Latin Germanus, GERMANO means "from Germany."
Surname or Lastname
English, Dutch, and German
English, Dutch, and German : variant spelling of May or Mei.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Teutonic
Warrior; Brotherly; From Germany; Brother
Surname or Lastname
Variant spelling of German Mentzer, a habitational name for someone from a place called Mentz (possibly Mainz) or Menz.English
Variant spelling of German Mentzer, a habitational name for someone from a place called Mentz (possibly Mainz) or Menz.English : probably a variant of Manser. Compare Menser.
Girl/Female
Australian, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese
From Germany
Male
Russian
(Герман) Russian form of Roman Latin Germanus, GERMAN means "from Germany."
Surname or Lastname
German (Michelmann)
German (Michelmann) : patronymic or pet form of the personal name Michel, a variant of Michael.English : occupational name for the servant (Middle English man) of a man called Michel (see Mitchell).
Surname or Lastname
English, French, Danish, Dutch, and German
English, French, Danish, Dutch, and German : from a short form of the personal name Matthias (see Matthew) or any of its many cognates, for example Norman French Maheu.English, French, Dutch, and German : from a nickname or personal name taken from the month of May (Middle English, Old French mai, Middle High German meie, from Latin Maius (mensis), from Maia, a minor Roman goddess of fertility). This name was sometimes bestowed on someone born or baptized in the month of May; it was also used to refer to someone of a sunny disposition, or who had some anecdotal connection with the month of May, such as owing a feudal obligation then.English : nickname from Middle English may ‘young man or woman’.Irish (Connacht and Midlands) : when not of English origin (see 1–3 above), this is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Miadhaigh ‘descendant of Miadhach’, a personal name or byname meaning ‘honorable’, ‘proud’.French : habitational name from any of various places called May or Le May.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Mayen, a place in western Germany.Americanized spelling of cognates of 1 in various European languages, for example Swedish Ma(i)j.Chinese : possibly a variant of Mei 1, although this spelling occurs more often for the given name than for the surname.Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware Bay, is named after the Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobsen May.
GERMAN
GERMAN
GERMAN
GERMAN
GERMAN
GERMAN
GERMAN
n.
A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism.
n.
An idiom of the German language.
n.
A social party at which the german is danced.
n.
In the old German empire, the head forest keeper.
n.
Fig.: A hall or temple adorned with statues and memorials of a nation's heroes; specifically, the Pantheon near Ratisbon, in Bavaria, consecrated to the illustrious dead of all Germany.
n.
The German language.
n.
The formation situated between the Permian and Lias, and so named by the Germans, because consisting of three series of strata, which are called in German the Bunter sandstein, Muschelkalk, and Keuper.
v. i.
To reason or write after the manner of the Germans.
pl.
of German
a.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, certain secret tribunals which flourished in Germany from the end of the 12th century to the middle of the 16th, usurping many of the functions of the government which were too weak to maintain law and order, and inspiring dread in all who came within their jurisdiction.
n.
A plant of the genus Teucrium (esp. Teucrium Chamaedrys or wall germander), mintlike herbs and low shrubs.
n.
The act of Germanizing.
n.
Of or pertaining to Germany; as, the Germanic confederacy.
n.
A native or one of the people of Germany.
v. t.
To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society.
a.
Pertaining to, or containing, germanium.
a.
Discovered or described by C. V. Schneider, a German anatomist of the seventeenth century.
n.
Of or pertaining to Germany.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Germanize
imp. & p. p.
of Germanize