Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗name
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname. · A census-designated place in Denali Borough, Alaska, United States. · A township in Oceana County, Michigan, United States, named after Thomas W. Ferry. · An unincorporated community in Greene County, Ohio, United States.
Two main origins: * A reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Fearadhaigh (“descendant of Fearadhach”), a personal name probably derived from an adjective derivative of fear (“man”). * A metonymic occupational surname for a ferryman or a topographic surname for someone who lived by a ferry crossing, from Middle English feri (“ferry”).
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- Derivation mentionÓ Fearadhaighga
- Derivation mentionferienm
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