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SIBILLA

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English

English : name for someone who was related to an important local personality, from Middle English maugh, maw â€˜relativeâ€™, especially by marriage (from Old English mÄge â€˜female relativeâ€™). In the north of England this term was used more specifically to mean â€˜brother-in-lawâ€™.English : topographic name from Middle English mawe â€˜meadowâ€™. Some early forms, such as Sibilla de la Mawe (Suffolk 1275), clearly indicate a topographic origin, by reason of the preposition and article.English : probably also from a Middle English personal name, Mawe, Old English MÄ“awa, perhaps originally a byname from Old English mÇ£w â€˜sea mewâ€™, â€˜seagullâ€™ (compare Mew).

Maw

Sibley

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English

Sibley

English : from the popular medieval female personal name Sibley, a vernacular form of Latin Sibilla, from Greek Sibylla, a title of obscure origin borne by various oracular priestesses in classical times. In Christian mythology the sibyls came to be classed as pagan prophets (who had prophesied the coming of Christ), and hence the name was an acceptable one that could be bestowed on a Christian child.

Sibley

Sibilla

Girl/Female

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Sibilla

Prophetess; Oracle

Sibilla

Sibson

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Sibson

English : habitational name from places in Leicestershire and Cambridgeshire so called. The former, Sibetesdone in Domesday Book, is named with the Old English personal name Sigebed + dÅ«n â€˜hillâ€™; the latter (Sibestune in Domesday Book) is named with the Old English personal name Sibbi or Sibba + tÅ«n â€˜settlementâ€™.English : patronymic from the personal name Sib(be), which is a short form either of the female name Sibilla (see Sibley) or of the Middle English male name Sybald (see Sibbald).

Sibson