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to-name, n. Now dial.|ˈtuːneɪm|
Also 3–4 tuo-, tou-, 4 tow-, 4, 7 too-, 9 Sc. dial. tee-name.
[OE. tó-nama, f. to-1 + name n. So MLG. toname, Du. toenaam, MHG. zuoname, G. zuname.]
A name or epithet added to an original name; a cognomen, surname, nickname; now in Sc. a name added to distinguish one individual from another or others having the same Christian name and surname, a ‘by-name’.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Mark v. 9 [Hælend] ᵹefreᵹn hine huætd ðe tonoma is? & cuæð to him here tonoma me is, forðon moniᵹ we sindon. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 143 Ðes wimman hadde ec on toname magdalene..Nu ȝie habbeð iherd þes wimmanes name & ec hire toname. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 4741 Þe bysshope Seynt Roberd; Hys toname ys ‘Grostest Of Lynkolne’. 1382Wyclif Ecclus. xlvii. 19 The name of the Lord, to whom is the toname [1388 surname] God of Irael. 1567Sir R. Maitland Complaynt vii, Thay theifis that steillis and tursis hame, Ilk ane o' them has ane to-name; Will of the Lawis, Hab of the Schawis. 1636in Ld. A. Campbell Rec. Argyll (1885) 5 Archibald, Earl of Argyle, his too name was Gillispick Dow. 1823Scott Quentin D. iii. 1870F. Buckland in Bompas Life xi. 243 There were no less than seven men every one of whom was a ‘David Main’, hence the necessity of Tee names, to distinguish one person from the other.
Hence ˈto-name v. trans., to give a to-name to.
1775Buchanan Inquiry Anc. Scott. Surnames 49 Brian Kennedy, to-named Boraimh, or Taxer. |