The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-26

Brag is found on5 the Hundred Rolls for Cambridgeshire. Bragg and Bragge are but little later and stiil survive. The family is now strongest in Devonshire where they have been prominent since the days of Queen Elizabeth.
 It is a mooted question whether the ultimate origin of the word is Celtic or Morse. In Welsh we find bragio. 'brag.' and brac .boastfui. in Irish bragaim is the verb boast in Armori- can braga Is Haunt strut These are related to the Gaelic bragh. burst. explosion and ultimately connected with the English break
 On the other hand the old Morse brak signifies "a creaking noise and brage Is Danish for a creak. crack. Bragi Is the Old Scandinavian Apollo the god of eloquence and of poetry. the patron of the Skalds. His name mas been considered by high authority as cornate with the Irish bricht. magic. sorcery.' and the sanskrit brahama' priest and the god Brahma.
 The Bragg Eenea1ogist is not alive to the possibilities of the name IT nc does not trace it to these Old Norse and Hfndoo deities.
 Blount-This is from the Norman French blond. blonde ''the fair of com plexion,'' or the yellow-haired.
 The great barioniai house Of Biount, the Lords Mountjoy. claimed oescen, from one William. son of Blound, Earl of Cuisines and a companion of the Conqueror. Tradition carried the fam fly back to the Blondi of Italy ana tne Flavii of classical Rome!
 The Hundred Rolls of i273 have the various form le Blount, le BloInd. ic Biont. le Blund. le Blunt ana tns dimlnutives Blundel and Biondeil. All of these survive and the last two usuaIiy assume a IT. Blount. Blunt and Blundell are the most frequent forms in England. Blondei Is the favorite in France and as made ro- mantle by the fidelity of Blondel oe Nesle. the minstrel of Richard Occur de Lion
 The French blond. Spanish tondo. Italian blonde. Mediaevai Latin clcn- dus, blundus, indicate a color between golden and light chestnut and corres- pond to the Latin fIavus. The more remote derivation Is uncertain. AS Anglo Saxon .has blanden-feax and blonden -feax, having mixed or grizzly hair and beblonden dyed from blan- den, to mix it is thought that the original sense of blundus was dyed and that the later meaning yellow was due to the fact that the ancient Ger mans dyed their hair yellow. The verb bland is common Teutonic, but has been superseded in English by blend.
 Gwin, Is from South Wales derived from the, Welsh gwyn, white, fair, and is indicative of the complexion CT color. of the hair of those who first bore the name.
 Other forms of this surname are Gwinn. Gwyn. Gwynne, Guinne. Winn. Winne, Wynn, Wynne. The variants with the initial 'Gw' prevail in South Wales and those with the initial w are characteristic of North Wales and Shropshire.
 The Cymric gwyn appears in Cornish as guyn. in Breton as gwenn. in Gal lie as wind Gin Vindobona, Vindomissa, etc1 This is a nasalized form of the radical seen in the cognate Latin video. sec Greek eidon (for evidon) saw and oida (for voida) know literally have seen: Sanskrit veda know and vedas 'holy-book,' literally the seen in revelations to it's authors: Avestan vaedha. know Old Siavonic videti see and vedeti. know Lithuanian veizdeti, sec Gothic wian, know and English wit, and wisdom.
 AFLANAGAN. This is the prevailing variant of an Irish surname which ap- pears also as Flannagan. F1anigan, Flannigan. etc. and in the patronymic forms o'Flanagan, etc.
 In the old Irish the name is Flandu- can which signifies ''the little red-faced Cor red-haired) man."
 The Old Irish Hand. Gaelic fann, means fred. blood-red" derived from the Old Irish and Gaelic full (genitive fola folo) and the adjectival sufIix- ando.
 rho diminutive sufnx. can. is very common in ancient personal names. In the modern Irish 1t has quite given I'll kA Ra Ana avT fr ar many Irish family names.
 Flann, the dy-complexioned." has from a very early period been used as personal name in Ireland. Flann of the monastery was a cele- brated annalist, poet and teacher. who tiourished at MonssterbOice and died in
 The genitive of Flann Is Flalnn. pronounced Finn, whence the surname O'Fiinn, and dropping the patronymic O. also Finn. The initial F is some times aspirated and this silences it in pronunciation. Hence the OFlynns are ancestors of the OLynns and the Films of the Linns.
 Flann takes sometimes also the pa- tronymic prefix Mac. Hence the fam fly name MacFlinn. By aspiration MacFhlain becomes ancestor of Mack lin, or by sonantization of the "c" of Magloin and of McGIoin. The latter again sometimes drops the prefix but allows the "g'' to adhere to the follow ing 'I.' hence the surnames of the Irish families of Glynn and Glenn.
 Similarly Flanagan by aspiration yields flanagan, etc.
 CAMPBELL-Popular etymology has played about this surname since the time of the old chroniciers who Latin ized it as De Bello Campo. Some would interpret this as the equivalent of the Norman Beauchamp. the English Fair field, and others as the equivalent of Warfeld. All in vain.
 Every place-name in Scotland that contains the name Campbell is known to have had it's origin in the family name. Therefore no place in Scotland gave rise to the family name.
 The family is Scotch to the very core and the pedigree has been traced to the fifth century. or long before the surname period, so they were not im- migrants bringing a foreign name. The name was for a long time Cambell ana the D. was late intrusion This finally demolishes any derivation di- rect from the Latin campus It is. in fact nickname and. like its fellow Cameron, owes it's origin to a physical peculfarity of its first owner. It Is the Gaelic cam beul and this means crooked mouths'
 Cam is one of the few Gaelic adtec.s lives that usually stand before the substantitiye. It is a frequent com ponent in both personal and place names. It is camm in Old Irish, cam in Irish Gaelic and Cornish. canGm or cam in Cymric, cam, kam, kamm in Breton, all descended from a proto- Celtic cambo-s crooked, wry."
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