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Almond
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almond
English
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Etymology 1
From the en enm - given name enm Almund, from the coalescence of en ang Æþelmund noble protector and ang Ealhmund temple protector.
Variant of en Allman (from en fro aleman German or fro alemayne from GermanyAllman) and en Allmand (from en fro alemaund GermanAllmand), assimilated after en almond by folk etymology.
Proper noun
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en.
Marc Almond Marc Almond (born 1957), English musician
Related terms
en Edmund Osmond
Etymology 2
According to John Reynolds, a historian of the town in New York, it was named for a place in Scotland, not the almond, which would most likely not have been available there then, hence the pronunciation is different.Town of Almond https://web.archive.org/web/20230327015338/http://www.almondny.org/ 2023
A native of it, James F. Moore, was the first postmaster of the village in Wisconsin.Almond Stevens Point Area Genealogical Society https://web.archive.org/web/20251216173435/https://www.spagswi.org/history/com-almond.html 1
Proper noun
en town/and/village therein, in co/Allegany County s/New York c/USA. TopoZone: Almond, New York
en village co/Portage County s/Wisconsin c/USA.
Etymology 3
Altered after en almond from earlier en Ammon, from en gd Àmain, from en cel-bry-pro *aβon river. en Avon.
Proper noun
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en river carea/North Lanarkshire carea/West Lothian and carea/Edinburgh cc/Scotland, which empties into the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh.
en river carea/Perth and Kinross cc/Scotland which joins the River riv/Tay.
Derived terms
en Almondbank
en Glenalmond
References
Anagrams
en adlmno Dolman Old Man oldman Mondal dolman Moland Oldman old-man Lamond Maldon old man