The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-18

It's Hugi ever since the famous visit
 of Thor to utgard, when only Hugi
 could outstrlp even the god in the
 race, for Hugi is Thought. HugInn
 and Munninn (Thought and Memory
 were the two ravens that sat on
 odin's shoulders in Valhaila. whence
 they flew forth each day over the whole world and reported on their re- turn all the deeds of men
 Hugo may be one of the few mono thematic Germanic personal names.
 or. more probably. a. hypocoristic form
 of Hugubert, which is more frequent
 and Is found in tho records as early as
 Bright or renowned of thought.F
 Its deutotheme is the Old High German peraht or beraht, explained
 under Roberts below. Its prototheme Is the old High Ger man hugu. thought. understan nding."
 This Is cosnate with the Old Saxon
 hugt, Anglo-Saxon hyRe. Dutch .heug.
 Middle Dutch hoghe. oId Morse hugr, Gothis hugs. all of the same general meaning. thought, mind, sense. un- derstandlng." The word has been plausibly connected with the ,SanskrIt
 shocati (palatal "sh"). ''iliumlne; shine
 burn" and Avestan saoehant burn
 ing" In that case hugu Is the burn
 Ing. Illuminating thought"
 Roberts. Robertson.
 Roberts fs the. son of Robert, which personal name appears in it's original
 dress in the name of the good Bishop
 Hruodperaht, founder of the first l Christian church at Wurms, about 700 A. D. He was honored in both Ger
 many and Francel After various mu- | tations the name became fixed as Rup- l recht in German and Robert in France. Robert the Pious was the second of l the Capetian dynasty. The first Duke l of Normandy made the name popular | in that land. Robert the Magnificent alias ''the Devil" gave new fustre to I the name. Robert .Gulscard carried 1t to Italy and made Roberto national | in Neapolitan realms. The Angevins 1 borrowed the name. Robert the Bruce made the name a favorite in the Low l lands. Tho flood of Norman knights
 and nobles that poured into England 1 after the conquest had already made the name famous there. So in few l centuries after the good old Bishop
 of wurms his name was common ev- anywhere in Western Europe.
 The three R's" of the surname pe- riod in England were Robert Roger l and Richard. Each became the par
 ent of several hypocoristic forms and 1 the grandparent of surnames by the
 score. In the onomatological race l Richard has proved an easy winner l with over 130 English patronymics l now existing to his credit, Robert has | given us at least seventy-five still in I use and Roger nearly fifty.
 The surname Roberts is now five times more numerous in North Wales
 than in any shire of England. South
 Wales, Shropshire, Monmouthshire and l Cornwall. in the order named. are the strongholds of the name. outside of
 North Wales It is scarcely known in l North England where Robinson has its l greatest range. Robertson is every
 where in Scotland. but rare in Eng
 land outside of Northumberland and Norfolk.
 Hruodperaht signifies bright fame" l equivalent in meaning to the Greek i Cleophanes.
 The prototheme is the old High l German hroud fame an exceeding 1 iy prolific element in the Teutontc name system. This Is cognate with the ] Old Morse hruthr Anglo-Saxon hreth
 and hrother, Gothic hroth in hroth-
 eigs famous, victorious" Latin car-
 men, "song." Greek kerux, "a herald" 1 Sanskrit karu, "a singer" and kirti. 1 fame"
 [ The deuterotheme is the Old High German peraht or beraht. cognate with