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In an English dictionary whieh I composed I included a large number of the elan nauies , as laid down by Kemble or determined by myself on his principles ; and I included such words , as well as many others , not only usually introduced into a dictionary of the English tongue , because I considerin a complete dictionary all words should be included , and not those words alone which by chance are to he found in what is called a classical author . A complete
dictionary of the English language will embrace all names of persons and places that are English , and every word indeed written or spoken . Such names are inherent portions of the language , and they throw great light on its history and philology .
Although the particle ing is under some circumstances the representative of the collective form , as Grimm , Kemble , Latham , and others have shown , and as represented by me to some extent in the grammar and dictionary , yet it has other uses , and is no safe criterion for affirming that the name in which it is used represents a clan
name . The my will be found in many names of places which neither refer to a ^ clan nor a person , but to a thing ; and the difficulty in the present state of our information is to determine those names which are clan names from those which are individual .
The broadfact nevertheless remains , that the invaders and settlers of Britain were composed of elans or great families , and that from those clans the present population , which has been shown to be in its bulk a pure population , belongs ; although it may be no more possible to determine the clan of a modern Englishman than the family of a modern Jew .
A . very remarkable fact which results from investigation is , that a large portion of the population still bears the same names as the ancient clan names . In following up this subject ) one objection will strike every one at
the outset , and that is , the common statement that surnames only came into use after the crusades . This it may be worth while to consider now , and the very first thing that can be said upon it is , that the German ! were , by undoubted testimony , divided into clans having distinctive names ; a , ncl conseauentlv the adoption of surnames after distinctive names ; a , ncl consequently the adoption of surnames alter
the crusades could be no new invention , though it is to be owned a large body of the population did then take surnames from the names of places . The facts can perhaps be made to harmonize better than is supposed , by these considerations . The English population was , at the time oi
the Norman emission , distinguished by clan names ; the Danish settlers used patronymics , and the Normans chiefly used patronymics . Many of the higher clans of the non-Norman population were of Danish descent , and used patronymics . When the practi ce of using surnames from places became common , the higher classes , Norman , English , and mixed , generally acquired names from the places of their estate or residence . The fashion for surnames
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Anglo-Saxon History Illustrated By Topog...
In an English dictionary whieh I composed I included a large number of the elan nauies , as laid down by Kemble or determined by myself on his principles ; and I included such words , as well as many others , not only usually introduced into a dictionary of the English tongue , because I considerin a complete dictionary all words should be included , and not those words alone which by chance are to he found in what is called a classical author . A complete
dictionary of the English language will embrace all names of persons and places that are English , and every word indeed written or spoken . Such names are inherent portions of the language , and they throw great light on its history and philology .
Although the particle ing is under some circumstances the representative of the collective form , as Grimm , Kemble , Latham , and others have shown , and as represented by me to some extent in the grammar and dictionary , yet it has other uses , and is no safe criterion for affirming that the name in which it is used represents a clan
name . The my will be found in many names of places which neither refer to a ^ clan nor a person , but to a thing ; and the difficulty in the present state of our information is to determine those names which are clan names from those which are individual .
The broadfact nevertheless remains , that the invaders and settlers of Britain were composed of elans or great families , and that from those clans the present population , which has been shown to be in its bulk a pure population , belongs ; although it may be no more possible to determine the clan of a modern Englishman than the family of a modern Jew .
A . very remarkable fact which results from investigation is , that a large portion of the population still bears the same names as the ancient clan names . In following up this subject ) one objection will strike every one at
the outset , and that is , the common statement that surnames only came into use after the crusades . This it may be worth while to consider now , and the very first thing that can be said upon it is , that the German ! were , by undoubted testimony , divided into clans having distinctive names ; a , ncl conseauentlv the adoption of surnames after distinctive names ; a , ncl consequently the adoption of surnames alter
the crusades could be no new invention , though it is to be owned a large body of the population did then take surnames from the names of places . The facts can perhaps be made to harmonize better than is supposed , by these considerations . The English population was , at the time oi
the Norman emission , distinguished by clan names ; the Danish settlers used patronymics , and the Normans chiefly used patronymics . Many of the higher clans of the non-Norman population were of Danish descent , and used patronymics . When the practi ce of using surnames from places became common , the higher classes , Norman , English , and mixed , generally acquired names from the places of their estate or residence . The fashion for surnames