Primrose

primrose English Etymology The surname derives from a place name in Fife, Scotland; Watson (1926) derived this from en xpi -/en cel-bry-pro *prenn wood, tree + cel-bry-pro *rros moor, heath. Taylor instead argued for en gd prím first + gd ros promontory. Changed by folk etymology because of phonetic resemblance to en primrose. The given name is one of the 19th-century flower names. Proper noun en habitational. en rare chiefly Britain en female English. en 1929 Joyce Lankester Brisley More of Milly-Molly-Mandy 8 Mother said, "How do you like Primrose? It sounds fresh and pretty." Milly-Molly-Mandy thought it sounded a very nice name. And then she decided, as the baby had come in the spring-time, it had better be Primrose. Derived terms en Primrose syndrome Anagrams en eimoprrs Primeros promiser