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English

Lewis

Lewis comes from Middle English Lewis, and goes back to Frankish *Hlūdawīg.

  1. Frankishc. 250–700*Hlūdawīgreconstructed
  2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400Louis
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Lewis
  4. Englishearliest quotation c. 1591–1592same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Frankishc. 250–700*Hlūdawīgreconstructed
  2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400Louis
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Lewis
  4. Englishearliest quotation c. 1591–1592same form

Earliest quotation: c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]: “And tell false Edward, thy supposed king, That Lewis…”

Every English word from Frankish *Hlūdawīg

Another origin of Lewis

  1. Old Frenchc. 842–1400Louis
  2. Irishc. 1200–presentLobhaois
  3. EnglishtodayLewis

Another origin of Lewis

  1. Proto-Celticc. 1300–800 BCE*Lugusdisputed
  2. Proto-Brythonicc. 100 BCE–500 CE*Lluɣβelenuncertain
  3. Welshc. 1500–presentLlywelynuncertain
  4. EnglishtodayLewis

An adopted anglicization of Welsh Llywelyn, from Old Welsh, from Proto-Brythonic *Lluɣβelen, from Proto-Celtic *Lugus + *Belinos, whose origin is disputed; see Belenus.disputed Scholars disagree here; the competing view is quoted as the source gives it.

Another origin of Lewis

  1. Old Norsec. 800–1350Ljóðahúsuncertain
  2. Scottish GaelicmodernLeòdhasuncertain
  3. EnglishtodayLewis

Derived from Scottish Gaelic Leòdhas, of uncertain origin; traditionally referred to Old Norse Ljóðahús, from ljóð (‘song, poem’) + hús (‘house’); but may be related to the Pictish name of the island recorded in Ptolemy's Geography as Λίμνου (Límnou).uncertain The source flags this step as uncertain.

Today it means

name A male given name from Frankish.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Frankish *Hlūdawīg / Lewis

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