English
Everett
Everett may come from Dutch Everaert.
- Dutchc. 1500–presentEveraertuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 2000Everett
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Dutchc. 1500–presentEveraertuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 2000Everett
Earliest quotation: 2000, Alice Walker, The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart: “She had feared it would be absent forever, until…”
Every English word from Dutch Everaert
Today it means
name A surname originating as a patronymic.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Dutch Everaert / Everett