Showing posts with label Middle English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Middle English. Show all posts
nickname
Originally not a nickname but an ekename.
Eke, once a common word meaning "additional" or "extra," was improperly divided with its preceding indefinite article, "an." Consequently, an ekename came to be pronounced a nekename and, eventually, a nickname.
Literally: "extra name"
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1440,
Middle English,
misdivision
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