Re[4]: [tied] Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?

At 12:58:52 PM on Tuesday, April 8, 2008, Rick McCallister
wrote:

> --- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 2:39:34 PM on Monday, April 7, 2008, Rick McCallister
>> wrote:

[...]

>>> and Langley and Inglis aren't (originally) English
>>> surnames.

>> <Langley> is a purely English locative surname, toponymic
>> from one of the many places named <Langley> or
>> topographical for someone who lived by a long clearing or
>> wood. Were you thinking of the French surnames <Langlais>
>> and <Langlois>?

> I'm thinking of the surname Langley < Langlais,
> Langlois which entered England from France

If there are any instances of <Langley> with this origin,
they're a minute fraction of the total, and the specific
form is undoubtedly the result of assimilation to the
English locative.

Brian