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English (most common in the West Country)
English (most common in the West Country) : nickname from Middle English swete ‘sweet’, ‘pleasant’, ‘agreeable’. The Old English bynames Swēt(a) (masculine) and Swēte (feminine) derived from this word survived into the early Middle English period, and may also be sources of the surname.Translation of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Suess.In New England, a translation of French Ledoux.
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English (most frequent in northern Ireland)
English (most frequent in northern Ireland) : from Middle English fe(i)th ‘belief (especially Christian belief)’, ‘faithfulness’, ‘loyalty’. This may have been a nickname for a trustworthy person, but was more probably bestowed on one who used ‘Faith!’ frequently as a mild oath or exclamation.
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English
English : variants Mosley. The form Moseley occurs mainly in the West Midlands.
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English (chiefly southern Yorkshire and Lancashire)
English (chiefly southern Yorkshire and Lancashire) : habitational name from any of several places called Mos(e)ley in central, western, and northwestern England. The obvious derivation is from Old English mos ‘peat bog’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, but the one in southern Birmingham (Museleie in Domesday Book) had as its first element Old English mūs ‘mouse’, while one in Staffordshire (Molesleie in Domesday Book) had the genitive case of the Old English byname Moll.
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English
English : variants Mosley. The form Moseley occurs mainly in the West Midlands.
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English and Welsh
English and Welsh : from the personal name Moss, a Middle English vernacular form of the Biblical name Moses.English and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived by a peat bog, Middle English, Old English mos, or a habitational name from a place named with this word. (It was not until later that the vocabulary word came to denote the class of plants characteristic of a peat-bog habitat, under the influence of the related Old Norse word mosi.)Americanized form of Moses or some other like-sounding Jewish surname.Irish (Ulster) : part translation of Gaelic Ó Maolmhóna ‘descendant of Maolmhóna’, a personal name composed of the elements maol ‘servant’, ‘tonsured one’, ‘devotee’ + a second element which was assumed to be móin (genitive móna) ‘moorland’, ‘peat bog’.
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English (mostly East Anglia)
English (mostly East Anglia) : unexplained.Vietnamese (Ông) : unexplained.Chinese : variant of Wang 1.Indonesian : unexplained.Filipino : unexplained.
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English
English : from a vernacular form of the personal name Moses.
Male
Italian
Italian form of Hebrew Moshe (Greek Mouses), MOSÈ means "drawn out."
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English (mostly Lancashire)
English (mostly Lancashire) : probably a variant of Sale.German : older form of Seiler.Dutch : from Middle Dutch salië, sailge ‘sage’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold herbs.
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Americanized form of the Latin personal name Januarius or its Italian derivative Gennaro, which was borne by a number of early Christian saints, most famously a 3rd-century bishop of Benevento who became the patron of Naples.English
Americanized form of the Latin personal name Januarius or its Italian derivative Gennaro, which was borne by a number of early Christian saints, most famously a 3rd-century bishop of Benevento who became the patron of Naples.English : altered form of Janeway.In New England, a translation of French Janvier.
Male
English
Anglicized form of Hebrew Moshe and Greek Mouses, MOSES means "drawn out." In the bible, this is the name of the leader who brought the Israelites out of bondage and led them to the promised land.Â
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English
Short form of English Moses, MOSE means "drawn out."
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English (most common in East Anglia)
English (most common in East Anglia) : from Middle English reeve, an occupational name for a steward or bailiff, the precise character of whose duties varied from place to place and at different periods.
Male
Hebrew
 Medieval Jewish form of Hebrew Moshe, MOSS means "drawn out." Compare with another form of Moss.
Male
English
 English surname transferred to forename use, derived from medieval Jewish Moss (2), MOSS means "drawn out." Compare with another form of Moss.
Male
Hebrew
(מׄש×ֶה) Hebrew name MOSHE means "drawn out." In the bible, this is the name of the leader who brought the Israelites out of bondage and led them to the promised land.Â
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English (but most common in Wales)
English (but most common in Wales) : from Lowis, Lodovicus, a Norman personal name composed of the Germanic elements hlod ‘fame’ + wīg ‘war’. This was the name of the founder of the Frankish dynasty, recorded in Latin chronicles as Ludovicus and Chlodovechus (the latter form becoming Old French Clovis, Clouis, Louis, the former developing into German Ludwig). The name was popular throughout France in the Middle Ages and was introduced to England by the Normans. In Wales it became inextricably confused with 2.Welsh : from an Anglicized form of the personal name Llywelyn (see Llewellyn).Irish and Scottish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lughaidh ‘son of Lughaidh’. This is one of the most common Old Irish personal names. It is derived from Lugh ‘brightness’, which was the name of a Celtic god.Americanized form of any of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. William Lewis was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.
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English
English : unexplained. Compare Moshier and Mosher.
Male
English
Italian form of English Moses, MOSÈ means "drawn out."
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p. pr. & vb. n.
of Moss
a.
Of or pertaining to the Mohammedans; Mohammedan; as, Moslem lands; the Moslem faith.
adv.
For the most part.
superl.
Resembling moss; as, mossy green.
adv.
For the greatest part; for the most part; chiefly; in the main.
n.
One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.
pl.
of Mosquito
v. t.
To cover or overgrow with moss.
n.
Alt. of Mostick
imp. & p. p.
of Moss
n.
Same as Mosasaurus.
superl.
Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams.
n.
Alt. of Mossbunker
n.
The state of being mossy.
a.
Overgrown with moss.
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Greatest in degree; as, he has the most need of it.
n.
A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border.
a.
Not according to Moses; unlike Moses or his works.
n.
A veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss.