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From: "Dr. Edward D. Rockstein" <>
Subject: [HWE] Etymology of "Huguenot"
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 09:46:39 -0500

Our Compact Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary gives the
etymology as
follows: "[a. F. Huguenot word of disputed origin, according to
Hatz-Darm. (who
cites the form eigenots from Chron. de Genive of 1550) a popular
alteration of
Ger. eidgenoss (Du. eedgenoot), confederate, under the personal name of
Hugues,
Hugh] for whatever you can derive from that--the bottom line s that as
far as
the venerable OED is concerned, the origin is disputed.

Regards, Ed Rockstein

Dr. Edward Rockstein
Columbia, MD

SURNAMES:

Through my mother's family the Langdon's and Seaman's of Hempstead, LI:

Bodine (Beaudoin), Rapalje (Raperlier), Trico, Largilere (Lageler,
Larzelere),
Billiou, Barteau (Barto), Crocheron, Corssen (etc.), Dubois, Dumont, Dey
(Dye),
Haughwout, Breestede, Vroom, Sweem, Hendricks(e), Jans (Janssen),
Roeloffse,
Kierstede, Mulliner, Vanneste, Roosa, Stuyvesant, Vandergrift, and
allied
families

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Roy Day wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roy Day"
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 10:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [HWE] The spirit of King Hugo
>
> |
> | On Saturday, December 16, 2000 7:02 PM luc chaput wrote
> |
> | According to my French dictionnaries the term huguenot comes from
> | eyguenet
> | which is an alteration of german Eidgenossen , name given to the
Geneva
> | people in league against the duke of Savoie. Luc
> |
> | On 14 décembre, 2000 12:48 I wrote
> |
> | >The assemblies of the Protestants of Tours took place at night in
a
> tower
> | >haunted, it was said, by a spirit called King Hugo. This took
place in
> | the
> | >middle of the 16th century and is supposedly how the name Huguenot
came
> | to
> | >be.
> | >Does anybody have any further information?
> |
> Both of the above are listed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica as
possible
> derivations of the word Huguenots. My source actually states the word
to be
> aignos and not eyguenet as mentioned above but that is a detail.
> What puzzles me is who actually invented the word as it does not
appear to
> have been used by the French? When and where was the word Huguenots
first
> used?
> If it came from the Geneva based definition then the name would not
have
> come in to normal usage until some considerable time after 1525. At
or
> before this time there were families with the name Huguenot living in
> several parts of France. Could another possible, and maybe more
logical
> explanation, be that some of the first converts carried this name?
>
> Roy
>
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