Basics
Title: A Dictionary of English Surnames
Subtitle: The origins of over 16,000 surnames
Authors: by P. H. Reaney, revised 3rd edition with corrections and additions by R. M. Wilson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 520
ISBN: 978-0-19-280066-4
Nordic Names shortcut: SUR
Index of Contents
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- Variation of surnames
- Transfer of surnames
- Classification of surnames
- Local surnames
- Ash, Nash, Rash; Oakes, Rook
- Loss of the Preposition
- Toponymics
- Surnames of relationship
- Patronymics
- Metronymics
- Johnson, Williamson, etc. Distribution and Origin
- Font-names as Bynames
- Post-Conquest Survival of Old English Personal Names
- Old English Personal Names Surviving in Modern Surnames
- Scandinavian Personal Names
- Scandinavian Personal Names Surviving in Modern Surnames
- Norman Names
- Personal Names in Medieval London
- The Breton Element
- The Celtic Element
- The Final -s in Jones, Parsons, Stocks etc.
- Pet-Names
- Diminutives
- The Suffixes -cock and -kin
- Classical Names
- Surnames of occupation and office
- Nicknames
- Heredity of surnames
- Welsh surnames
- Scottish surnames
- Irish surnames
- Manx surnames
- Notes
- Abbreviations
- The Dictionary
- Appendix: Locating the home of a family name by David Hey