The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-09

Names considered today: FitzPat- rick. Foster Mercer. Patton. Forrest, Lynch. Patterson, Tfliman.
 TIILMAN.--This early English oceu- pative name signifies "a man who tills the earth, a husbandman.
 In Caprrave's Chron. under the date of 1gAs. we find. Because there were so fewe tylmen. the erde lay untilleds In the early English translation of Pal iadius on Husbondrie,- made about l430 we read:
 Now every grayne almest hath noures
 swete. Tes ~. 1T unttouched now the Tilman iete hem
 grove"
 The prototheme is the Anglo-Saxon tilian. "to exert oneself for. strive for, aim at. labor. cultivate, till Gand>." the Middle English. tilien, yyiien "to cul- tfvate, till" The Angio-Saxon ad- jective til means good. excellent. prof table" and the noun til means "an end, object goodness.'' These and the cog mates below indicate the original sig uffication of the word, while the Mid- de English indicates the special mean ing which the word took in time.
 The old Saxon tilian. "to get, to at- sain,s old Low German tilon. "to exert oneself. strive. hasten, attempt" Old High German zilon, of the same mean ing German ziel. limit, aim, goa" oId Tristan tilia. 'to get, beget. cuIti- vafe. till" Middle Dutch telen 'tiil (land). Dutch telen. sto raise, culti- vate. breed" Gothic tilon Ito make fit. Co prepare. work, adopt to use, and tils. "suitable, it," are the leading cog mates.
 The deuterotheme is the Anglo-Saxon and Middle English man. cognate with the Gothic mama, old High German man(n), old Morse mathr. Avestan and Sanskrit mauu, man. The Hlndoo Manu was the father of mankind ana the German Mannus was the mythical ancestor of the West Germans
 The term is usually connected with the Indo-European radical man, to think" but some object to the interpre- tation that makes man mean the thinker"
 two patronymics indicate the son o1 patrick The former is strong in Ireland, the latter in Scotland.
 The original Patrick was Suceat. son af the deacon Calpuruiua, Roman British youth. About III A. D., he was Kidnapped by a band Of Scots ana Picts and sold into slavery among the Irish Picts on the coast oi areiano. a Six years later he escaped ana re- turned to his people In Britain. Alter a few years of preparation he re turned as a missionary to convert tne Trfsh and became the apostle ana pat. ron saint of that people.
 The Patricii were the privileged class af ancient Rome. descendants Of the ,crseinai patres of the Latin city. Pa- frlciua thus indicated a descendant or Ina Roman nobility and Patrick him. saif tells us he was of noble birth.
 snrne men become immortal under their sobriquets rather than under their real namss. So all men Know ol Plato and but few Of Arist @Ales' eia o1 patrick and but few of Succat. some what similarly in our own history ma1,v know of Stonewali Jackson, who would not recognize Thomas Jonathan
 The name Patrick became immensely nopu1ar in Ireland. where 1t mas oe- coma the national sobrtquet. Durins t,,a s,,rnar,e period 1t had great vogue also in Patrick's homeland, North briI- ain. The favorite nickname In the lat- tar was Pate and it's diminutives Pat lin and Patton. From Pattin was formed the patronymic Pattinson ana of this Patterson Is corrupuon So sevenfeenth place among the surnames Of that country in order of frequency.
 n Fftx Patrick we have the Norman natronymic prefix Fitz. meaning son. This Is the Angio-French spelling ol the old French fig (pronounced nts). from the Latin filius. son. pno- netIc law In the Old French causes the palatalized '1" to change a following as'' into cts" and this is then written as "z.' Thus the Latin filius became ffz. which is cited by Littre and Du- Cange from the "Chanson de Roland'' of the twelfth century and various documents ranging in date from lls2 to 15I0.
 Fitz became the usual Norman pat ronymIc prefix and came with many Norman names to England. The Eng fish adopted the prefix. but in such way as to reflect upon the morals of their conquerors. When applied in