Re: OT Ethnotypes WAS Re: FWD [OT but interesting]....

michael poxon scripsit:

> Aren't they both the same? As would be Dutch hoog-aard "high ground"  the
> second element would be seen as the common French formative -ard as in
> "Blanchard" and so on, even though the derivation was different. Just an
> idea.
Possibly.  But I would read "Hogard" as most probably "hog+ward" (as in
"Stewart" < sty-ward.  This "ward" is of course "guard", "keeper", not
the directional suffix.

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