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HoodEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
* As an English and Scottish surname, from the noun hood. * Also as an English surname, from the Middle English name Hode, a variant of Ode or Odd with prosthetic H-, see Ott, Oates, and also compare Hodson. * Also as an English and Scottish surname, variant of Hudd. * As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó hUid (“descendant of Ud”). Compare Mahood. * As a French surname, Americanized from Houde.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗hoodEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English hood, hod, from Old English hōd, from Proto-West Germanic *hōd, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to cover”). See also Saterland Frisian Houd (“hat; hood”), West Frisian and Dutch hoed (“hat”), Cimbrian huat, huut (“hat”), German Hut (“hat”), German Low German Hood (“hat; hood”), Luxembourgish Hutt (“hat”); also Proto-Iranian *xawdaH (“hat”) (Avestan 𐬑𐬂𐬛𐬀 (xåda), Old Persian 𐎧𐎢𐎭 (x-u-d /xaudā/)). More at hat.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗hoodEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Clipping of hoodlum.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗hoodEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Clipping of neighborhood; compare nabe.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗hoodEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
Clipping of hoodie, influenced by existing sense “hoodlum”.
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Does Köbler's headword cross-reference to hatōn settle the ancestry?
No. “See hatōn” is a lexical cross-reference; the same entry's E field supplies the distinct *hwōtja- etymology. Cross-reference, semantic neighborhood, and parent edge are separate claim types.
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Are royal and right unrelated lookalikes?
No. They are not close derivatives of each other, but both occupy documented branches under the reconstructed straight-and-direct root.
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