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Day
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Appendix:Variations of "day"
English
Etymology 1
This surname has multiple origins. Besides the ones listed below, Norman origin has also been suggested from De Haie",Elisabeth Alice Gibbens Cole, An Account of Our Day Family of Calvert County, Maryland (1940), p. 49. or "a corruption of the Normandy French D'Ossone, from the town of Ossone, in Normandy". Day Surname Origin & Last Name Meaning at Ancestor Search.
Pronunciation
en /deɪ/
en eɪ 1
en day dey Dey
Proper noun
<dab!>
en patronymics derived from a medieval diminutive of David.Day Surname Origin & Last Name Meaning at Ancestor Search.
en English occupations from day as a word for a "day-servant", an archaic term for a day-laborer,Ernest Weekley, The Romance of Words (1927), p. 165. or from given names such as Dagr, Daug, Dege, and Dey, cognate with Scandinavian Dag.Susa Young Gates, Surname Book and Racial History (1918) p. 289.
en Irish can be found as both Day and O'Day from ga Ó Deághaidh descendant of a person named Good Luck.
en number of places c/USA:
en ucomm co/Modoc County s/California.
en CDP/and/unincorporated community co/Lafayette County s/Florida.
en twp co/Montcalm County s/Michigan.
en ucomm co/Isanti County s/Minnesota.
en ucomm co/Taney County s/Missouri.
en town co/Saratoga County s/New York.
en town co/Marathon County s/Wisconsin.
Derived terms
en Ben Day benday Day County Dayville John Day Riley-Day syndrome
See also
en St Day
References
Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges : A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press 1988.
Notes:
Etymology 2
Proper noun
+ language
A Mbum-Day language of Chad.
Anagrams
en ady d'ya y'ad yad