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PENN
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English, Dutch, and North German
English, Dutch, and North German : from early Middle English penning, Low German penning, Middle Dutch penninc ‘penny’ (see Penny), a topographic name (from a field name) or a nickname referring to tax dues of a penny.South German : from the short form, Panno, of a Germanic personal name derived from a word meaning ‘ban’, ‘order’, ‘command’.
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English
English : variant of Deary, or alternatively a nickname for a merchant or tradesman, from Anglo-French darree ‘pennyworth’, from Old French denree.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Doiridh, the name of an eccesiastical family from Donegal, meaning ‘descendant of Doireadh’. Derry is often confused with Deery.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Pennyroyal
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English
English : habitational name from Pennywell in Tyne and Wear or from a similarly named lost place elsewhere.
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English
English : patronymic from Penning.
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English
English : habitational name from a place named in Old English with fēorðing ‘fourth (part)’, ‘quarter’, being the fourth part of a larger administrative area. There are fifteen or more minor places with this name in southern England. As a surname, it may also denote someone who paid a farthing in rent, from the same word in the sense ‘farthing’, ‘quarter of a penny’.English : from the Old Norse personal name Farþegn, composed of the elements fara ‘to go’ + þegn ‘warrior’, ‘hero’.
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English (chiefly Lancashire and Cumbria)
English (chiefly Lancashire and Cumbria) : habitational name from places called Pennington, in Lancashire, Cumbria, and Hampshire. The latter two are so called from Old English pening ‘penny’ (Penny) (used as a byname or from a tribute due on the land) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The place of this name in the parish of Leigh in Lancashire is recorded in the 13th century as Pinington and Pynington, and may be from Old English Pinningtūn ‘settlement (tūn) associated with a man named Pinna’.
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English
English : habitational name from various places, for example Penn in Buckinghamshire and Staffordshire, named with the Celtic element pen ‘hill’, which was apparently adopted in Old English.English : metonymic occupational name for an impounder of stray animals, from Middle English, Old English penn ‘(sheep) pen’.English : pet form of Parnell.German : from Sorbian pien ‘tree stump’, probably a nickname for a short stocky person.Americanized form of a like-sounding Jewish surname.The Commonwealth of PA was founded in 1681 by an English Quaker, William Penn (1644–1718), who was born in London into a family of Gloucestershire origin. His grandfather was a merchant and sea captain, and his father was an admiral on the Parliamentary side during the Civil War, who later served King Charles II after the Restoration. Because of his father’s services to the crown, Penn the younger received a grant of a vast tract of land in North America, formerly part of New Netherland, which later became the state of PA.
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English and German
English and German : metonymic occupational name for a maker of pins or pegs, from Middle English pin, Middle Low German pin(ne) ‘pin’, ‘peg’. In some cases the German name was an metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker.English (Devon) : from Middle English pinne ‘hill’ (Old English penn), a topographic name or a habitational name from a place named with this word, e.g. Pinn, Pinn Court Farm, or Pin Hill Farm, all in Devon.
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English (mainly Lancashire and Cheshire)
English (mainly Lancashire and Cheshire) : unexplained.Probably an altered form of German Dornig, which is probably a nickname for someone with a sharp tongue, from an adjectival derivative of Middle High German, Middle Low German dorn ‘thorn’. The suffixes -ig and -ing were often interchanged in Pennsylvania German and elsewhere. The name may also refer to a sloe bush.
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English
English : variant spelling of Pennell (see Parnell).
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : variant spelling of Penny.
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English
English : occupational name for the servant (Middle English man) of someone called Penny.
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English (also present in Ireland)
English (also present in Ireland) : from Middle English peni, peny ‘penny’, applied as a nickname, possibly for a person of some substance or for a tenant who paid a rent of one penny. This was the common Germanic unit of value when money was still an unusual phenomenon. It was the only unit of coinage in England until the early 14th century, when the groat and the gold noble were introduced, and was a silver coin of considerable value. There is some evidence that the word was used in Old English times as a byname.
Female
English
English pet form of Latin Penelope, PENNY means "weaver of cunning."
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Penny, PENNEY means "weaver of cunning."
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English
English : possibly a variant of Penny.
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English
English : variant of Ralph.A Francis Rawle from the parish of St. Juliot in Cornwall, England, was recorded as living in Plymouth, MA, in 1660. Devout Quakers seeking to escape persecution, the family emigrated to PA in 1686, bringing with them a deed from William Penn for a tract of 2,500 acres of land, which was subsequently located in Plymouth township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) Co. His son, who had six sons himself, was a political economist and one of the first people to write on the subject and its local applications in America.
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English
English : variant of Disborough, a habitational name from places in Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire called Desborough. The first is named from Old English dwostle ‘pennyroyal’ + beorg ‘hill’; the second from the Old English personal name Dēor + burh ‘fortress’, ‘stronghold’.
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English
English : occupational name, a variant of Penn 1, with the agent suffix -er.North German (including Lower Rhineland) : variant of Pfänner, from Pfann ‘pan’; according to Bahlow, a name denoting the owner of a salt-boiling pan.German : habitational name from Penna near Leipzig.Eastern German : in some cases a topographic name (of Salzburg emigrants) in East Prussia, equivalent of Baintner, Paintner (see Bainter), from Middle High German biunte ‘separate part of land or enclosure belonging to a village’.
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n.
Any one of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The zooids are situated along one edge of the side branches.
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A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name.
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A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny.
pl.
of Pennatula
pl.
of Pennatula
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Hence: The full value of one's penny expended; due return for money laid out; a good bargain; a bargain.
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An honest fellow.
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Alt. of Pennoncelle
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Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny.
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A pennant; a flag or streamer.
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Alt. of Pennated
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of Penny
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Any one of numerous species of club-shaped, compound Alcyonaria belonging to Veretillum and allied genera, of the tribe Pennatulacea. The whole colony can move about as if it were a simple animal.
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of Penna
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A small coin, and money of account, in England, equivalent to two pennies, -- minted to a fixed annual amount, for almsgiving by the sovereign on Maundy Thursday.
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Worth or costing one penny.
n.
A small flag; a pennon. The narrow, / long, pennant (called also whip or coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel.
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A division of alcyonoid corals, including the seapens and related kinds. They are able to move about by means of the hollow muscular peduncle, which also serves to support them upright in the mud. See Pennatula, and Illust. under Alcyonaria.