What is the name meaning of LETCHER. Phrases containing LETCHER
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English : topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream, from Old English læcc, læce (see Leach) + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.English : unflattering nickname for a lecher, Middle English lech(o)ur (Old French leceor). Reaney comments: ‘The surname is rare, probably usually disguised as Leger’.German (Letscher) : habitational name for someone from Letsch, near Bensberg, Rhineland, or various other places such as Letsche, Letschin, Letschow, etc. See also Letsch.
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French (Léger) and English
French (Léger) and English : from the Germanic personal name Leodegar (see Ledger).French : nickname from léger ‘light’, ‘superficial’.English : see Letcher.Dutch (also de Leger) : occupational name from Middle Dutch legger, ligger ‘bailiff’, ‘tax collector’.A Leger from Normandy, France, was in Quebec City by 1644; another was in Montreal by 1659. One from Limousin, France, was in Quebec City by 1691; another, from Paris, was there by 1706; and a third, from Poitou, France, arrived in 1711.
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English : from a Norman personal name, Leodegar, Old French Legier, of Germanic origin, composed of the elements liut ‘people’, ‘tribe’ + gÄr, gÄ“r ‘spear’. The name was borne by a 7th-century bishop of Autun, whose fame contributed to the popularity of the name in France. (In Germany the name was connected with a different saint, an 8th-century bishop of Münster.)English : variant of Letcher, in part a deliberate alteration to avoid the association with Middle English lecheor ‘lecher’.
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