CHAT: weird names,was Re: conlanging,the ultimate feminist subversion
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 4, 1999, 0:05 |
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nicole perrin wrote:
> My surname, however, is Perrin, and
> I have no idea what that means. In fact, I don't even know where it
> originated from.
According to my book on surname origins, it is French/English, meaning
"Little Peter", ultimately from Latin _Petrus_.
--
"[H]e axed after eggys: And the goode wyf answerde, that she coude not
speke no Frenshe ... And then at last a nother sayd that he woulde haue
hadde eyren: then the goode wyf sayd that she vnderstood hym wel." --
William Caxton
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