CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I. PAGE
THE ANTIQUITY AND THE UNSUSPECTED DIGNITY OF SOME OF OUR COMMON NAMES 1
CHAPTER II.
CLUE TO SOME OF THE ANCIENT FORMS REPRESENTED IN ENGLISH NAMES 23
CHAPTER III.
NAMES REPRESENTING ANCIENT COMPOUNDS 36
CHAPTER IV.
THE MEN WHO CAME IN WITH THE SAXONS 69
CHAPTER V.
MEN'S NAMES IN PLACE-NAMES 92
CHAPTER VI.
CORRUPTIONS AND CONTRACTIONS 113
CHAPTER VII.
THE OLD FRANKS AND THE PRESENT FRENCH 123
CHAPTER VIII.
THE GERMAN ORIGIN OF GREAT ITALIANS AS EVIDENCED IN THEIR NAMES 143
CHAPTER IX.
VARIOUS UNENUMERATED STEMS 154
CHAPTER X.
NAMES WHICH ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM 171
CHAPTER XI.
CHRISTIAN NAMES OF WOMEN
197
List of the Principal Works Consulted 213
Additions and Corrections 215
Index of Names 217

CONTRACTIONS.

A.S. Anglo-Saxon.
O.N. Old Northern.
O.G. Old German.
O.H.G. Old High German.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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