The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-08


 Nanass By request: Marion, Began. Alc0ff, Eustis, Tunsfail. Allied names: Miriam. Mary Boggan. Boggaun, Al cuin, Allcorn, 1Oldcorn. EldcoFne. Eus- t&ce Hustes, Ustace.S TonstaiL Dunstali. etc. a
 Marfon.
 The metronymIc Marion signifies the .'son 6t Marfoh"- or as Marion Is "a diminutive of Mary, "the son of little Mary"
 The personal name IS the Hebrew Miryam. our Miriam, the sister of Moses and Aaron. Another Miriam Is named in l., Chron. Hv. IT. and then there is smother gap of centuries be- fore we find the name again. 1t then appears as the name of the beautiful Hasmonaean princess. the high soulea and i'll starred wife of Herod the Great. Her naffie is variousiy written by Jo- sephus as Marianne, Marianne and Marianne.
 As Stanley says. it was popular sym pathy with her rather than the mem ory of Miriam that made the name Of such frequent recurrence in the next generation as indicated by Josephus and the evangelists. -H
 Tn the Greek by the New Testament the name appears in the two forms. Marian and Maria It has long been
  fined to the Virgin and the latter to the other Marys There are few ex< captions either way.
 Mary is the most frequent feminine name in the New Testament. It cannot be made out quite definitely just how many are there mentioned whether six, seven or eight. There is CD Mary. xfie mother of James; (2), the other Mary; (3J Mary of CIopas; (4) Mary, the sister of Martha; (5) Mary Magda- lenss (sJ Mary saIuted by Paul; CD EEary. mother of Mark: .Is) Mary. mother of Jesus; but the first three or any two of them may be identical, hence the doubt as to their number.
 Marian continued in the East, but made slow progress in the West until the time of the Crusades. Suddenly the name spfang up everywhere and Spain and Italy teemed with Marias and France with Maries. It soon reached England, first as Maria, which was anglicized as Mary and then in the French diminutive, from Marion.
 Mary is probably the most popular girls name in England and America. The Scotch love for Margaret places this name first in that country, but with Mary as a close second. The Scotch, probably because of the popu lar Maid Marion" have taken a great CT fancy to the diminutive than any other people. In England many sons of Mary ap- pear as sprnames at the time of the Hundred Rolls (127) and Kifby's Quest (iss7j. Marion and Marionson appear in force first on the Yorkshire poll tax list Of 1873.
 The consonants in Miriams name may also read marlin, bitter" and such is most probably the meaning of the name. She was born at. the time when the Egyptians were making bit ter the lives of the Israelites. by the heavy and arduous tasks they imposed upon them. It thus perpetuates the memory of an epoch in their national life.
 The name is closely akin to the Mareh, the spring of bitter water, which lay in the wilderness and to Mara. the name chosen by Naomi
 Hogan. ,rhe seotch-Irisf Began belongs to the numerous category of surnaf1es of local origin.
 The name was for many years one of the most mooted in Scottish lit erary circles. The question, Who is B. B., or Mrs. Borgan of Bogan?" was heard on every side. This was the pseudonym under which the peerless young Scotch songstress. Caroline oli- phant, afterwards Baroness Marine, con- tributed a large number of original songs to a collection of national airs afterwards published under the title, Scottish Minstrel G vols. Edinburgh, 1e84.)
 Began is a dimInutive of bog, hence as q place name it signifies 'the little boeS tor marsh covered with peat moss), and as surname 1t signifies "one who lives at or near began"
 The Old Irish bocc, Irish and Gaelic bog means originally soft The term later applied to those soft or marshy places covered with peat and In this meaning was borrowed into English and used by Shakespeare, Milton and Bunyan among others It has long been in current use and few suspect Its nativity on the hither side of the Irish Sea.
 Bog itself in its original sense of soft is still living word In constant use among the Irish, but in It's mear- ing of peat-moss, etc, 1t has been supplanted In It's native country by It's derivitie bogach. which is in gem eral use In this sense. This bogach gives names to many places now call cd Boggagh. Bogagh and Boggy, (e. g. Beggyheart. l. e., Bogach -aedhaire' The shepherd bog near Dublin.)
 There is also in Ireland a number of places now called Boggah and Bog guam. names derived from the dimin- utiye began, the little bog.
 The Irish and Gaelic bog Is cognate with the Breton bouk. old Breton buc. rotten, erumb1ing,' Anglo-Saxon bega. English bow, Gothic biugan, to bend, to curve Sankrlt bhugnas, bent. curved, crumpled' and bhuJati. bends The Latin fugio, Greek pheugo, maan- ing flee and Lithuanian bugti. fright ens terrify' are also cognate in origin but have a very different semantfc evO- lution.
 The diminutive suffix an is also in. tsresting. This Is found in the Ogam Inscriptions, which are the oldest Monuments of GadeIic literature, dat. ing mostly from the fifth to the eighth centuries, in the form agnos. The snfflx ie frequent in place names but far more so in personal names. One of tie highest Celtic authorities identl. fies this sufflx as cognate with the Lat iii Agnus lamb, Greek amnos, Irish and Gealie aun. Cymric cen, Cornish ofn, Breton oan, Old SlavOnic jagne, aIi meaning lamb the Anglo Saxon eanian. English yean.
 sro call a little bog a 'bosNlamb' wnnld seem like a metaphorical tour desforce, but the language has many others equally bold.
 TunstaIl.
 The man from Yunstalr-for thus the name signifies--came from Eng land. His family genealoglst must de- terniine his original habitit more closely, for there were and are Tuns- tails pretty much all over the land. Al least five parishes bear the name, one each in Durham, Lancashire. Sui folk, Staffordshire and Kent There was one also in Devonshire, but It's name has been modernIzed and Is now
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