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Name into word; proper names that have become common property; a discursive dictionary, with a foreword.
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- Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1970]
- 1970-1950
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-RMRR PE1583 .P35 1970 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
On defining the proper name.
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- Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1973.
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text L-10 3842 no. 39 v. 39-43 v. 39-43 Offsite Not available - In use until 2024-01-26 - Please for assistance.Nicknames, past and present [by] Vernon Noble. Foreword by Eric Partridge.
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- London, H. Hamilton [1976]
- 1976
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 78-5137 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
When you speak English you're often talking Hebrew.
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- New York, Fellowship in Prayer, 1973.
- 1973
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *PCN 81-1764 Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
BBC pronouncing dictionary of British names / edited and transcribed by G.E. Pointon.
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1983.
- 1983
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFC 99-465 Offsite Names : a collector's compendium of rare and unusual, bold and beautiful, odd and whimsical names / Paul Dickson.
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- New York : Delacorte Press, by 1986.
- 1986
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 86-7625 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Transliteration into Tamil of extra-Biblical names and abbreviations of the books of the Bible. Edited by Albert Manuel.
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- [Madras, Published by the Christian Literature Society ... for the Tamil Theological Literature Committee, 1963]
- 1963
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OKTP 89-15365 Offsite A history of English field names / John Field.
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- London ; New York : Longman, 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 94-1606 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Transkripcioni rečnik engleskih ličnih imena / Tvrtko Prćić.
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- Beograd : Nolit, [1992]
- 1992
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QKK 94-2680 Offsite Proper names master index : a comprehensive index of more than 200,000 proper names that appear as entries in standard reference works / edited by Frank R. Abate ; with a foreword by Ladislav Zgusta.
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- Detroit, Mich. : Omnigraphics, c1994.
- 1994
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text APD 95-6792 v. 1 A-K Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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Words, names, and history : selected writings of Cecily Clark / edited by Peter Jackson.
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- Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 1995.
- 1995
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 96-8904 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Name into word; proper names that have become common property; a discursive dictionary. With a foreword.
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- London, Secker and Warburg, 1949.
- 1949
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-12 8986 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
An index of names in Pearl, Purity, Patience, and Gawain.
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- Ithaca, Cornell University Press [1951]
- 1951
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NCID (Chapman, C. O. Index of names) Offsite Verba nominalia; or, Words derived from proper names. By Richard Stephen Charnock.
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- London, Trübner & co., 1866.
- 1866-1866
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text RNF (Charnock, R. S. Verba nominalia) Offsite A New English dictionary, shewing the etymological derivation of the English tongue, in two parts. Part I. Explaining all the common English words, and shewing their derivation from the proper fountains. Part II. An etymological explication of the proper names of men, women, rivers, counties, cities, towns, villages, &c. which were formerly used by the English-Saxons, or are now common amongst us. A work of great use to the English reader, who is curious to know the original of his mother tongue.
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- London, Printed for Timothy Childe ... 1691.
- 1691
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Rare Books 11-82 Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Phrases and names, their origins and meanings, by Trench H. Johnson...
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- London, T. W. Laurie [1906]
- 1906
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *AY (Johnson, T. H. Phrases and names) Offsite How you got your name: the origin and meaning of surnames, by James Pennethorne Hughes.
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- London, Phoenix House, 1959.
- 1959
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text APD (Hughes, J. P. How you got your name) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The origin of family or sur-names, with special reference to those of the inhabitants of East Dereham, in the county of Norfolk; being a lecture delivered at the Dereham Athenæum.
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- Norwich, A.H. Goose & Co. [1882?]
- 1882
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ARF (Carthew, G. A. Origin of family or sur-names) Offsite Dizionario ortoepico di nomi propri inglesi.
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- Brescia, G. Vannini, 1938.
- 1938
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text A p.v. 969 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The devil and his imps : an etymological inquisition / by Charles P.G. Scott.
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- [Urbana, Ill.?] : American Philological Association, 1895.
- 1895
Studies on the population of medieval London.
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- Stockholm, Almquist & Wiksell [1956]
- 1956
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text L-10 2909 v. 1 v. 1-3 Offsite Anhlo-ukraïnsʹkyĭ slovnyk vlasnykh nazv ta imen : blyzʹko 3 000 sliv i slovospoluchenʹ / [ukladann︠i︡a Tet︠i︡any Oliĭnyk].
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- Ternopilʹ : Pidruchnyky & posibnyky, 2000.
- 2000
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QGA 00-6924 Offsite {C}B̄wlgarska transkrip̨ti︠i︡a na angliĭski imena : teori︠i︡a i praktika / Andreĭ Dan̊cev.{R}
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- {C}Sofi︠i︡a : D̄wr̊z. izd-vo Nar. prosveta,{R} 1982.
- 1982
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QK 85-2405 Offsite Beiträge zur Geschichte der englischen und chinesischen Anthroponomastik = Contributions to the history of English and Chinese anthroponomastics / von Silvio Brendler.
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- Hamburg : Baar, 2001.
- 2001
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 03-5070 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Inheritance of English surnames / by Christopher M. Sturges and Brian C. Haggett.
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- London : Hawgood Computing, 1987.
- 1987
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JAX G-2232 Offsite Sladostnyĭ dar, ili, Taĭna imen i prozvishch / Alla Ktorova.
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- Moskva : Gamma Press, 2002.
- 2002
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QCF 04-792 Offsite Names and history : people, places, and things / George Redmonds.
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- London ; New York : Hambledon and London ; [New York] : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- 2004
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text APD 05-4741 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
How you got your name: the origin and meaning of surnames / by James Pennethorne Hughes.
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- London : Phoenix House [label]: Hollywood-by-the-Sea, Fla., Transatlantic Arts, 1961]
- 1961
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NYGB ENG. G 205 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
An index of the Arthurian names in Middle English.
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- Stanford : Stanford University Press, 1952.
- 1952
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text RAA (Stanford University. Publications. University series: language and literature. v. 10) v. 10-12 Offsite The royal dictionary abridged [electronic resource] : In two parts. I. French and English. II. English and French. Containing near five thousand words more than any French and English dictionary yet extant: And, To which is Added, The Accents of all English Words, to Facilitate their Pronunciation to Foreigners. The second edition, carefully corrected, and improved with above Fifteen Hundred English Words, Extracted out of the most Approved Authors. As also, an alphabetical list of the most common Christian names of Men and Women; and the Abbreviations of the said Names Vulgarly used. By Mr. A. Boyer.
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- London : printed for R. Clavel. H. Mortlock. J. Robinson. D. Brown. S. Crouch. J. Lawrence. A. and J. Churchil. R. Sare. S. Smith. J. Taylor. T. Horn. J. Nicholson. J. Knapton. R. Knaplock. J. Wyat. R. Wilkin. R. Wellington. B. Took. E. Castle D. Midwinter. E. Smith, 1708.
- 1708
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Available Online
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- Moskva : "Russkiĭ i︠a︡zyk", 1989.
- 1989
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CS2367 .R93 1989 Off-site Batty, bloomers and boycott : a little etymology of eponymous words / Rosie Boycott.
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- London : Hutchinson, 1982.
- 1982
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PE1596 .B6 1982 Off-site English field-names : a dictionary.
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- Newton Abbot : David and Charles, 1972.
- 1972
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text DA645 .F52 Off-site An index of names in Pearl, Purity, Patience, and Gawain.
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [1951]
- 1951
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PR1203 .C46 1951g Off-site Toponymics or derivations from local names in English.
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- Uppsala : Appelbergs boktryckeri, 1920.
- 1920
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 829.2 L26 Off-site Restrictive modification and article usage with English proper names / Aimo Seppänen.
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- Umeå, Sweden : Umeå University, Department of English, 1982.
- 1982
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PE1205 .S47 1982g Off-site BBC pronouncing dictionary of British names: with an appendix of Channel Islands names; edited and transcribed by G. M. Miller.
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- 1971
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PE1660 .B7 Off-site The English plant names in the Grete Herball, 1526 : a contribution to the historical study of English plant-name usage / by Mats Rydén.
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- 1984
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text QK13 .R93 1984 Off-site On defining the proper name.
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- Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1973.
- 1973
Name into word; proper names that have become common property; a discursive dictionary. With a foreword.
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- 1949
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 829.2 P258 Off-site Names and history : people, places, and things / George Redmonds.
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- London ; New York : Hambledon and London ; [New York] : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text P323 .R39 2004 Off-site Proper names in English : a study in semantics and syntax / Aimo Seppänen.
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- Tampere : [Dept. of English Philology, University of Tampere], 1974.
- 1974
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PE1205 .S4 v.1 Off-site Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PE1205 .S4 v.2 Off-site Bŭlgarska transkript︠s︡ii︠a︡ na angliĭski imena : teorii︠a︡ i praktika / Andreĭ Danchev.
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- Sofii︠a︡ : Nar. prosv., 1978 [dep. 1980]
- 1978
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PE1156 .D36 Off-site Easton, Suffolk - the fields and field names.
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- London, J. Packard, 1972.
- 1972
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HD609.E3 P3 Off-site Words, names, and history : selected writings of Cecily Clark / edited by Peter Jackson.
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- Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 1995.
- 1995
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PE262 .C57 1995x Off-site Records by spade and terrier : historical side-lights from the discovery of stone-age, Celtic, and Roman remains ; also from the etymology of local place and family names, from customs and folk-lore, garnered from the tithe-maps and registers of Holcombe-by-Mendip and surrounding district : being personal reminiscences.
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- Bath : G. Gregory, [1912]
- 1912
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Br 5192.90.10 Off-site What's in a name? : reflections of an irrepressible name collector / Paul Dickson.
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- Springfield, Mass. : Merriam-Webster, c1996.
- 1996
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PE1578.A2 D53 1996 Off-site Jin dai Zhongguo zhuan ming fan yi ci dian / Huang Guangyu bian.
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- Chengdu : Sichuan ren min chu ban she, 2001.
- 2001
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MLC-C Off-site
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