--- On Wed, 2/25/09, Andrew Jarrette <
anjarrette@...> wrote:
> From: Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: [G] and [g] and PIE voiced plosives
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 9:33 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Although some deluded individuals would claim it's
> from Hitch
> "Richard" + cock "diminutive". I'm
> sure they also claim the last name
> Badcock is from Bad "Bartholomew" + cock
> "diminutive", thereby ruining
> a good tale.
> >
>
>
> Where can one find listed these obscure diminutives like
> "Hitch" for
> "Richard" and "Bad" for
> "Bartholomew"?
>
> Andrew
In any book on British surnames.
I had a friend named Hitchmough --"Richard's meadow", according to her.
The -ens, -ins, I guess is possibly from -kins. And is that is related to Germanic kind???
The British really butchered first names, so for Richard, Richard's son, you see Higgins, Liggins, Hitchens, Riggs, Higgs, Dixon, Dickens, etc.
Roger was another name that got rogered: Hodges, Hodgekins, Dodge, perhaps Hutchins
Also Robert: Hobbs, Dobbs, etc.
Besides Badcock and Hitchcock, there's also Adcock. Batcock and Bartcock, as well as Wilcox, and undoubtedly many more.
I'm guessing the diminutives have some geographical correlations:
the -kins names I've come across in my family were Welsh, Adkins,
as were the -ings, e.g. Jennings.
and the -kers, Akers < Adam < Akins < Adkins
and indeed all the -s names: Owens, Daniels, etc.
While the -son names in my family were Socts: Jackson, Wilson, etc.
But there must be better correlations for this than one family