- smears."
Descriptive bynames were
given to a
person to
distinguish them from
other people of the same name. In
England bynames were used
during the period...
-
either Harold or Henry.
Other monothematic names may have
originated as
bynames rather than
hypocorisms of old
dithematic names;
examples may
include Old...
- A
toponymic surname or
habitational surname or
byname is a
surname or
byname derived from a
place name,
which included names of
specific locations, such...
- A
coachman is an
employee who
drives a
coach or carriage, a horse-drawn
vehicle designed for the
conveyance of p****engers. A
coachman has also been called...
- circulation, and the
bynames were
added onto the name of person, in
order to
distinguish them from
others who bore the same name.
Bynames were particularly...
-
although more
recent versions depict the
spirits in
other forms.
Their ****,
bynames, and
various transformations vary geographically. The
German Nix and his...
- the
contrary byname Christian den Gode (Christian the Good) in Denmark, but this is apocryphal.
According to
Danish historians, no
bynames have been given...
-
consisting of
paedonymic (son's name),
given name,
patronymic and one or two
bynames.
Different cultures have
different conventions for
personal names. When...
- as 1187 in the
Topographia Hibernica of
Giraldus Cambrensis,
while the
byname "lionheart" (le quor de lion) is
first recorded in Ambroise's L'Estoire...
- oral law, the
Mishnah and the Talmud.
Moses is also
given a
number of
bynames in
Jewish tradition. The
Midrash identifies Moses as one of
seven biblical...
