English
Wileman
Occupational surname for a trapper, from wile + man.
Proto-Indo-European *weyk- ‘to consecrate, hallow, make holy’
Proto-Indo-European *wey- ‘to turn, bend’
Proto-Germanic *wīlą ‘craft, deceit’
Old Northern French wile ‘guile’
Middle English wile ‘wile, trick, artifice’
English wile
Proto-Germanic *mann- ‘human being, person, man’
Proto-West Germanic *mann ‘person’
Old English mann ‘human being, person, man’
Middle English man
English man
Today it means
name A surname originating as an occupation.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Wileman