What is the name meaning of HOY. Phrases containing HOY
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Tamil
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English (mainly East Anglia)
English (mainly East Anglia) : metonymic occupational name for a sailor, from Middle Dutch hoey ‘cargo ship’.Northern Irish : variant of Howey 2 and Haughey.Scottish : habitational name from some unidentified minor place named Hoy, or from the Orkney island of Hoy, which was named in Old Norse as Háey, from há ‘high’ + ey ‘island’.Danish (Høy) : nickname for a tall person, from høj ‘high’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Hoyt.
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Hindu, Indian
Holy
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English
English : variant spelling of Hoy 1.Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads named Høye, from the dative singular of Old Norse haugr ‘hill’, ‘mound’.
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Muslim
Passionate Love
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English
English byname for a tall, skinny person, turned surname turned forename, from Middle English hoit, HOYT means "long stick."
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English
English : variant spelling of Hoyt.
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English
English : variant of Hoy 1.
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English (Yorkshire and Lancashire)
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire) : topographic name for someone who lived by a depression or low-lying spot, from Old English holh ‘hole’, ‘hollow’, ‘depression’ (see Hole).Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Chomhghaill, a patronymic from a personal name meaning ‘devotee of (Saint) Comhghal’ (see McCool). Woulfe, however, traces Hoyle (as well as MacIlhoyle and McElhill) to Mac Giolla Choille ‘son of the lad of the wood’, which has sometimes been translated as Woods.
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Indian
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English
English : nickname for a tall, thin person, from Middle English hoit ‘long stick’.
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Arabic, Muslim
Passionate Love
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : topographic name, a variant of Sell 1.English and Scottish : occupational name for a saddler, from Anglo-Norman French seller (Old French sellier, Latin sellarius, a derivative of sella ‘seat’, ‘saddle’).English and Scottish : metonymic occupational name for someone employed in the cellars of a great house or monastery, from Anglo-Norman French celler ‘cellar’ (Old French cellier), or a reduction of the Middle English agent derivative cellerer.English and Scottish : occupational name for a tradesman or merchant, from an agent derivative of Middle English sell(en) ‘to sell’ (Old English sellan ‘to hand over, deliver’).German : probably a habitational name from a place named Sella near Hoyerswerda.
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English (South Yorkshire)
English (South Yorkshire) : habitational name from any of various places in South Yorkshire named with Old English hÅh ‘hill spur’ + land ‘(cultivated) land’.English : variant of Holland 1.Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads, notably in southwestern Norway, named in Old Norse as Heyland, from hey ‘hay’ + land ‘(piece of) land’.
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n.
The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied to C. Hoyi, a related species of Lake Michigan.
n.
One who navigates a hoy.
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A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
interj.
Ho! Halloe! Stop!
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of Hoyman
n.
Same as Hoiden.