Haimo

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Haimo, also spelled Hamo, Heimo, Hamon, Haim, Haym, Heym, Aymo, Aimo, etc., is a masculine given name of Germanic origin. The Old French forms are Haimon, Aymon, Aimon, Aymes. It is a hypocoristic form of various Germanic names beginning with the radical haim-, meaning "home".

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Appearance in modern Anglophone naming

Haimo is the origin of a wide range of surnames, including English surnames like Hame, Haim , Haime, Haimes , Hains, Haines , Hayns, Haynes , Hammon, Hammond , [1] and Fitzhamon. [2] The Old French form Haimon was then combined with the diminutive suffix -et, giving the pet-name Hamunet, which in turn gave rise to the English name Hamnett and its variants. [3]

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Listed chronologically.

Aymon
Haimo
Haymo
Hamo
Hamon

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References

  1. ↑ The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ed. by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), s.vv.; ISBN   978-0-19-967776-4.
  2. ↑ Thorvald Forssner, Continental-Germanic Personal Names in England in Old and Middle English Times (Uppsala, 1916), pp. 140–142 (for Hammond and Fitzhamon).
  3. ↑ The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ed. by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), II, p. 1183 [s.v. Hamnett, and the other entries referred to there]; ISBN   978-0-19-967776-4.
  4. ↑ "Open Domesday".
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