What is the name meaning of NORTHUMBERLAND. Phrases containing NORTHUMBERLAND
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English (Northumberland and Durham) : unexplained; perhaps a variant of Scottish Wanders, which Black tentatively derives from a Scottish local pronunciation of Guinevere, name of King Arthur’s queen, who according to local Angus legend was buried in the parish of Alyth.
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English (Northumberland and Durham) : unexplained; just possibly a late formation from the plant name, although tulips were not introduced into western Europe until the 16th century.
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English (Northumberland) : said to be a variant of Scottish Fairlie.
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English (Northumberland and Durham) : nickname for a vain or haughty man, from Middle English prod, prud ‘proud’ (late Old English prūd, from the oblique form of Old French proz).
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English (chiefly Northumberland)
English (chiefly Northumberland) : patronymic from the personal name George (see George).
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English (Northumberland and Durham) : unexplained.
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English (Northumberland) : habitational name from a place in the foothills of the Cheviots named Harbottle, from Old English hÌ„ra ‘hireling’ (a derivative of hÌ„r ‘wages’, ‘reward’) + bÅtl ‘dwelling’.
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English (Northumberland, Durham, Cumbria)
English (Northumberland, Durham, Cumbria) : northern variant of Leachman.
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English (Northumberland) : nickname for a big man, from Middle English muchel ‘big’ (Old English mycel). Compare Mickle.German (Mückle; South German Muckle) : from a diminutive of Muck ‘gnat’.
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English (Yorkshire and Northumberland)
English (Yorkshire and Northumberland) : unexplained. Probably a habitational name from an unidentified or lost place in northern England, or possibly from Tarbolton in Ayrshire, Scotland.
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English (Northumberland and Durham)
English (Northumberland and Durham) : either a variant of Renshaw or of Ravenshaw, a habitational name from Ravenshaw in Warwickshire, or a topographic name for someone who lived by the ‘raven wood’.
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English (chiefly Northumberland) and French : perhaps a variant of Gale 2.
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English (chiefly Northumberland) : habitational name from a place named Haswell, notably the one in County Durham, which is named from Old English hæsel ‘hazelnut tree’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
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English (Northumberland and Durham) : probably a topographic name or a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, most likely in northeastern England, where the name is still most frequent.
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English (Northumberland) : patronymic from a medieval personal name, Pack (see Pack).
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English (Northumberland and Durham)
English (Northumberland and Durham) : possibly a habitational name from Swinnie in Borders region, Swinney Beck in North Yorkshire, or Swinny Knoll in West Yorkshire, or some other similarly named place.English (Northumberland and Durham) : alternatively, perhaps an Americanized form of Irish Sweeney.
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English (Northumberland)
English (Northumberland) : topographic name for someone who lived by a stream among lush pastures, from Middle English grene ‘green’ + welle ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or habitational name from a minor place so named.The main English family of this name came originally from Greenwell, Wolsingham, County Durham, where they are recorded as owning land as early as 1183.
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English (Northumberland)
English (Northumberland) : habitational name from a place in Northumbria, so called from a British river name akin to Welsh arian ‘silvery’, ‘bright’ + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
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English (Northumberland and Durham) : from a late Old English personal name Stubheard.
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English (Northumberland and Yorkshire) : patronymic from a short form of the personal name Richard.
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Of or pertaining to Northumberland in England.
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A native or inhabitant of Northumberland.
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A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.