sirname

English

Etymology

Possibly influenced by erroneous analysis as sire-name (per Brewer's 1877 Errors of Speech and of Spelling).

Noun

sirname (plural sirnames)

Archaic spelling of surname. [uncommon after 1860]
- 1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3)‎:
  Fair Helen's sirname, therefore, depends upon the period at which she lived, which it is now impossible to ascertain.]
- 1833, Charles K. Dillaway, Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology‎:
  These names were not always used; commonly two, and sometimes only the sirname.
- 1902, William Younger Fletcher, English Book Collectors‎:
  They were in two trunks (made exactly fit for them) that had the first letters of my christian and sirname decyphered upon them with nails; and on the first page of every book was my ordinary motto and name written at length in my own hand.

Anagrams

Erisman, Mainers, Marines, Merinas, Minears, Reimans, Reisman, Riemans, mainers, maresin, marines, remains, seminar

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