English word origin

Etymology of Hardy

From Old English *Hearda + īeġ (“island, dry land in a marsh”).

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Source etymology 1

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name

A former town in Manchester, England, now absorbed into Chorlton-cum-Hardy.

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From Old English *Hearda + īeġ (“island, dry land in a marsh”).

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Inherited-form mention*Heardaang

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Source etymology 2

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name

A common surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a hardy person. · A male given name transferred from the surname. · A minor city in Sharp County and Fulton County, Arkansas. · An unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

* As an English, Scottish, and French surname, from Middle English hardy, hardi, from Old French hardi (“hardy, daring, stout, bold”). * As an Irish surname, via mac giolla deacair (“son of the hard lad”) as a calque of the above. * Also as a Scottish surname, variant of Hardie.

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Derivation mentionhardyenm
Derivation mentionhardifro

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