Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A British and Scandinavian topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in or near a hall. · A surname from German for someone associated with a salt mine. · An Anglo-Norman surname. · A village in Gelderland, Netherlands.
Hall class, a class of steam locomotive used on the GWR.
* As an English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish surname: all from the noun hall. The name was likely reinforced by similar sounding words such as Swedish häll (“rock slab”). * As a Chinese surname, variant Romanization of 何, 賀 /贺 (hè), see He. ** (locomotive): The locomotives were named after English and Welsh country houses with 'Hall' in their titles. ** (British and Scandinavian surnames): From the buildings, halls
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- Cognate mentionhällsv · rock slab
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