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English
English : habitational name from any of various places called Harlow. One in West Yorkshire is probably named from Old English hær ‘rock’, ‘heap of stones’ + hlÄw ‘mound’, ‘hill’; those in Essex and Northumberland have Old English here ‘army’ as the first element, perhaps in the sense ‘host’, ‘assembly’.English : There is also a record of this name as a variant of Cornish Penhollow.
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English : from a Middle English personal name, Elyat, Elyt. This represents at least two Old English personal names which have fallen together: the male name A{dh}elgēat (composed of the elements a{dh}el ‘noble’ + Gēat, a tribal name; see Jocelyn), and the female personal name A{dh}elḡ{dh} (composed of the elements a{dh}el ‘noble’ + ḡ{dh} ‘battle’). The Middle English name seems also to have absorbed various other personal names of Old English or Continental Germanic origin, as for example Old English Ælfweald (see Ellwood).English : from a pet form of Ellis.Scottish : Anglicized form of the originally distinct Gaelic surname Elloch, Eloth, a topographic name from Gaelic eileach ‘dam’, ‘mound’, ‘bank’. Compare Eliot.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : habitational name from any of various places called Hawley. One in Kent is named with Old English hÄlig ‘holy’ + lÄ“ah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, and would therefore have once been the site of a sacred grove. One in Hampshire has as its first element Old English h(e)all ‘hall’, ‘manor’, or healh ‘nook’, ‘corner of land’. However, the surname is common in South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, and may principally derive from a lost place near Sheffield named Hawley, from Old Norse haugr ‘mound’ + Old English lÄ“ah ‘clearing’.
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English (mainly Staffordshire)
English (mainly Staffordshire) : habitational name from Howle in Shropshire, named from Old English hugol ‘hillock’, ‘mound’.
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English
English : patronymic from Low 3 and 4.English : topographic name rom the plural of Middle English lowe ‘mound’, ‘hill’ (see Low 1).
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : habitational name from a place near Warrington, which is of uncertain etymology. There was formerly an ancient burial mound there and Ekwall has speculated that the name is a shortened form of a British name composed of the elements crÅ«c ‘mound’ + a personal name cognate with Welsh Einion (see Eynon).Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac CoinÃn ‘son of CoinÃn’, a byname based on a diminutive of cano ‘wolf’, also Anglicized as Cunneen. The similarity to coinÃn ‘rabbit’, a later borrowing, has also caused it to be ‘translated’ as rabbit.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a small hill or a man-made mound or barrow, Middle English how (Old Norse haugr), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, such as Howe in Norfolk and North Yorkshire.English : variant of Hugh.Jewish (American) : Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.Americanized form of Norwegian Hove.
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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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English
English : habitational name from Malborough (Devon) or Marlborough (Wiltshire). The Wiltshire place name is from an unattested Old English personal name Mǣrla or Old English meargealla ‘gentian’ + beorg ‘hill’, ‘mound’.Irish : possibly a variant of the County Clare surname Malborough, Marlborough, which MacLysaght considers to be probably an Anglicization of Gaelic Ó Maoilbhearaigh (see Mulberry 2).Perhaps also an Americanized form of German Malburg.
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English (chiefly south Lancashire)
English (chiefly south Lancashire) : variant spelling of Haworth.English (chiefly south Lancashire) : habitational name from Howarth in the parish of Rochdale, Lancashire, apparently so called from Old English hÅh ‘mound’ + worð ‘enclosure’. However, if the 13th-century form Halwerdeword refers to this place, the first element may instead be Middle English halleward ‘keeper of a hall’ or represent a personal name such as Old English Æðelweard or Old Norse Hallvarðr.
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Welsh
Welsh : from the personal name Hywel ‘eminent’, popular since the Middle Ages in particular in honor of the great 10th-century law-giving Welsh king.English : habitational name from Howell in Lincolnshire, so named from an Old English hugol ‘mound’, ‘hillock’ or hūne ‘hoarhound’.
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English
English : habitational name from Emborough in Somerset, named from Old English emn ‘flat topped’ + beorg ‘hill’, ‘mound’, or possibly from Hembury in Devon.
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Polish
Polish : from the personal name Lew ‘lion’, adopted as a translation of Leon (see Lyon 2).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Lev.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a hill or burial-mound, Old English hlǣw, or a habitational name from Lew in Oxfordshire, named with this word.Chinese : variant of Liu 1.
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English (chiefly Lancashire)
English (chiefly Lancashire) : habitational name from Heap Bridge in Lancashire, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a hill or heap, from Old English hēap ‘heap’, ‘mound’, ‘hill’.
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English
English : habitational name from either of two places called Greenhow, in North and West Yorkshire, or from Gerna in the parish of Downham, Lancashire, all of which are named with Old English grÄ“ne ‘green’ + hÅh ‘mound’ (or the cognate Old Norse haugr).
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English (mainly southwest England)
English (mainly southwest England) : topographic name for someone who lived by a depression or low-lying spot, from Old English holh ‘hole’, ‘hollow’, ‘depression’.Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads, so named from the dative singular or indefinite plural form of Old Norse hóll ‘round hill’, ‘mound’.Shortened form of Dutch van (den) Hole, a habitational name from the common place name Hol, meaning ‘hollow’, ‘depression’, ‘valley’, or a topographic name from the same term.
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English (chiefly Sussex and Kent)
English (chiefly Sussex and Kent) : from a pet form of Hugh.English (chiefly Sussex and Kent) : habitational name from Huggate in East Yorkshire, possibly named in Old Norse with hugr ‘mound’ (an unattested variant of haugr) + gata ‘road’.
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English
English : habitational name from Kirkley in Northumberland, found in early records as Crekellawe. The element Crekel is from Celtic crÅ«g ‘hill’ + Old English hyll ‘hill’, to which the tautologous addition (Old English hlÄ â€˜hill’, ‘mound’) was later made. There is also a Kirkley in Suffolk, named from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + Old English lÄ“ah ‘woodland clearing’, which may also have contributed to the surname.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived near a tumulus, mound or hill, Middle English lowe, from Old English hlÄw (see Law 2).Scottish and English : nickname for a short man, from Middle English lah, lowe (Old Norse lágr; the word was adopted first into the northern dialects of Middle English, where Scandinavian influence was strong, and then spread south, with regular alteration of the vowel quality).English and Scottish (of Norman origin) : nickname for a violent or dangerous person, from Anglo-Norman French lou, leu ‘wolf’ (Latin lupus). Wolves were relatively common in Britain at the time when most surnames were formed, as there still existed large tracts of uncleared forest.Scottish : from a pet form of Lawrence. Compare Lowry 1.Americanized spelling of Jewish Lowe.
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English
English : habitational name, common in Lancashire and Yorkshire, from Buglawton or Church Lawton in Cheshire, or Lawton in Herefordshire, named in Old English as ‘settlement on or near a hill’, or ‘settlement by a burial mound’, from hlÄw ‘hill’, ‘burial mound’ + tÅ«n ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.English : variant spelling of Laughton.
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v. t.
To cover, as a corpse, with a mound or tomb; to bury.
v. t.
To free from a dam, mound, or other obstruction.
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A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.
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A hill or mound.
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A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic.
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A dam or mound to stop water.
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A low, oven-shaped mound, common in volcanic regions, and emitting smoke and vapors from its sides and summit.
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Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.
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Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound.
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A hill or mound.
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A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.
v. i.
To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
v. t.
To fortify or inclose with a mound.
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A mound or monument commemorative of Buddha.
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A bird of Celebes (megacephalon maleo), allied to the brush turkey. It makes mounds in which to lay its eggs.
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A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants.
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A hill; a mound; a grave.
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