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INTERPRETATION OF NAMES. 479
Interpretation of Baptismal Names
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AARON, a teacher ; Hebrew, literally one that is exalted above
the vulgar or common people.
ABRAHAM, father of many nations ; Hebrew, from ab, father,
and raham, many nations, or multitudes.
ACHILLES, one that mourns or grieves—F. Pichler. It is
a Greek name, by which the son of Peleus and Thetis was
known, who signalized himself at the siege of Troy.
ACHOR, Achior, trouble, disturbance of mind ;
troubling, or akhan, he that troubles.
Hebrew, akhor,
ADAM, earthy man ; Hebrew. This name may be derived
from dam, blood, adam, red, or to be red, in the sense of
beauty, or beautifiil, i. e. red man, beautiful man.
ADELBERTH, Ethelbert, of noble birth ; Gothic, ^del, adel,
noble, and Anglo-Saxon, li/t'd, heorth, berth, birth, the con-
dition in which a person is born.
ADOLPH, Adolf, a noble helper; Gothic and Anglo-Saxon,
hyJpan, helpan, holjjeji, holph, help, hence helper.
ADRIAN, Hadrian, one from the Gulf of Venice ; Greek origin.
aEGEDIUS, Egidius, Giles, vigilant, wakeful ; Greek, and may
be derived from the verb egeiro, to stir up, animate, to waken.
ALBERTUS, Albert, Albrecht, same as Adelberth.
ALEXANDER, one who aids, or defends ;
Greek, from alexo,
alexeo, to defend, and aner, andros, nom. pi. andres^ a man,
men ; one who protects men.
ALFRED, all peace; Anglo-Saxon, eal, (Greek, holos, all, the
whole) and freoh, freod, fread, fred, peace.