This work is of the nature of a supplement to one which I published some time ago under the title of The Teutonic Name-system applied to the Family-names of France, England, and Germany (Williams and Norgate), though I have been obliged, in order to render my system intelligible, to a certain extent to go over the same ground again.
I will only say, in conclusion, that in dealing with this subject—one in which all persons may be taken to be more or less interested—I have endeavoured as much as possible to avoid technicalities and to write so as to be intelligible to the ordinary reader.
Robert Ferguson.
Morton, Carlisle.
Transcriber's note: A letter with a circumflex that could not be properly displayed in this e-text is represented by an ^ as in [^y]
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | PAGE |
| THE ANTIQUITY AND THE UNSUSPECTED DIGNITY OF SOME OF OUR COMMON NAMES | [1] |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| CLUE TO SOME OF THE ANCIENT FORMS REPRESENTED IN ENGLISH NAMES | [23] |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| NAMES REPRESENTING ANCIENT COMPOUNDS | [36] |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| THE MEN WHO CAME IN WITH THE SAXONS | [69] |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| MEN'S NAMES IN PLACE-NAMES | [92] |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| CORRUPTIONS AND CONTRACTIONS | [113] |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| THE OLD FRANKS AND THE PRESENT FRENCH | [123] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| THE GERMAN ORIGIN OF GREAT ITALIANS AS EVIDENCED IN THEIR NAMES | [143] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| VARIOUS UNENUMERATED STEMS | [154] |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| NAMES WHICH ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM | [171] |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| CHRISTIAN NAMES OF WOMEN | [197] |
| List of the Principal Works Consulted | [213] |
| Additions and Corrections | [215] |
| Index of Names | [217] |
CONTRACTIONS.
A.S. Anglo-Saxon.
O.N. Old Northern.
O.G. Old German.
O.H.G. Old High German.