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Dollard

name

Etymology

*English: Nickname for a dull or stupid person, from dull + -ard; or an adaptation of Irish Ó Dhollaird. *Other languages: can be related to pain/suffering, similar to Dolores; can be about mourning (see in Filae); or it can derive from rivers named Dollart or Dullaert (Middle Dutch “madman, savage”).

  1. inherited from *dʰwel-✻
  2. inherited from *dulaz✻
  3. inherited from *dol✻
  4. inherited from dol — “dull, foolish, erring, heretical; foolish, silly; presumptuous”
  5. inherited from dull
  6. suffixed as dollard — “dull + ard”

Definitions

  1. A surname.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA