The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-10


 Names by request: Barnard. 5ss ses, nard. MacIntyrs. Montgomery '
 V.-sant.: Bernard, Bernhardt. Bern n.rt Macantyre. McAntire. MacEn- tser MacEntyre MacInteer. Macin- fire M,Ateer. Mateer, MAteer. Mrea1' M'Teer. MTier, Montgomeris, Mos.- ssnray Picard. Richardson. Ricne' e;ches Rickard, Kicks. Rix. Aixon' Ryche. Teer and Tier
 IfacIntyre.
 The surname MacIntyre is the GaeIlc patronymic Mac-an-t-Saoir, tne as of the carpenter" The speoiss sa,ssh,rs the surname is now In Arsyishe' Scotland. xs ,,a. au- ,v expiained under Macdonald m No'
 rta sn-t is the definite article "the. nh. .t. is original but is lost In Gaeiic axoept before . vowel or m .nc isttar case the "s'' disappears from the word as pronounced as 1t is complete iy "eclipsed" by the t. This IS coz nate with the Irish an. old lrisn m (masc. and fem.) an (neut.) ana oe- scsnded from an Old Ceitio senaos' ssnda sanfd). cognate with the Greek bode etc. This Is a compound in both Celtic and Greek. The Celtic declined inc final element: the Greek. the int- sial.
 This prototheme Is cognate with the (,id Latin sam, sos, sum, that" Greek ho. he. "the, that" Gothic sa. so. "the, An~lo-Saxon se, "the," Old Morse sasi. susi. s.this,. Old High German Sc in dese. "this," Ivestau ho. ha- sanskrif sa, sas, so. "the." dallic se-sio. sa-so (sansio) 'this."
 The deuterotheme is cognate with the Greek de, "but.' de 0ong s"e''l acertaiuIy." Old Siavonic da. sthat.' "in order that" Gothic 'te In unte. .swhile, untii." old High German zuo' German zu. Angio4saxon to. Engiisn
 The final saoir is the genitiye case of the Gaelic saor, "a skilled work- man. artisan" especially "a carpen- ter" coRnate with the Irish sair, saer of the same meaning, the Latin sapio' Jam wise," sapientia. wisdom, Ans- io-Saxon sefa. ''understauding. sense. Old High German Cnt)sefen, see into understand" Irish sai. "a learned man. scholar"
 Among the variants we find Macan- tyre, McAntire. McEnteer, MeEntyre' MacIntire. MacInteer. etc. and In Ire- land M'Ateer, Mateer, MAtear, M'Teer, M. ter. Tecr. Tier. etc.
 Barnard, Bernard.
 The uersonai name Beornheard ap- pears on the extant Anglo-Saxon rec ords first in Kent near the end of the seventh century. It is quite frequent during the next two centuries as the name of various civil and ecclesiasti- cal officials.
 The corresponding German person al name Bernhard. Bernhart or Bern hardt occurs on the Continental rec ords about the same time. Perhaps the earliest now known was Bsrin- hard, Bishop of Cremona 670-67S. Bishops of Nola, Sens, Castro and Em- brun bore the name in the next oen- tury. Bernhard, Grandson of Charie- magne, became king of Italy about S12. Numerous grand dukes, counts and minor notables, also archbishopa and other ecciesiastics, etc., bore the name during the succeeding centuries.
 Bernardo del Carpio was the great legendary hero of Spain in the ninth century. .He. WAS nephew of Al 9onso II of Leon. and was distinguish led for his prowess against the Moors and Spanish tradition says he squeez- cd the paladin Roland to death. In his arms in the famous battle of Ronces- valies. He has been immortalized In many e Spanish ballad and in the dramas of Lope de Vega.
 But he who did far more than all others to make the name, already pop uiar, a general favorite, was the fa- nous Cistercian monk, born at Dion in Burgundy in 109l. Eloquent and able, he became the most powerful ec- cleeiastic of his day and made him. self revered by. all for his pure and lofty character. Under this impetus the old name revived in England and became especially popular in Furness after. the Abbey there came under Bernardine rules.
 The surname is a patronymic mean ing the son, of Bernard" It is found in 1914 as fil. Bernardi. and in 127s as fI. Bernard. t,.-
 The protothen1e of the name is repre- scented in the Anglo.Saxon beorn, biorn "a warrior, hero, man of>Yalor," Middle English berne, found only in poetry, but frequently from Beowulf to the six teenth century; old Morse biorn, ''bear man." These are modified forms of the noun seen in the Old High German bero perrin, Old Morse berr, Anglo-Saxon bera. English bear. Middle English bere Middle High German Der, German. baeri all meaning "the bear." These are cog nate with the old slavonic brulogu Russian berloga, 'the lair or den of a bear" and the sanskrit bhallas. "a bear"
 The word was originally a color designation as is shown by the eognate Lithuanian beras. Lettish bers. SanslSrit babhrus. all meaning brown" S0 Braun Is the name of the bear in the German Tiersage, as Brutn is in the English.
 As the Teutonic king of beasts and a noble. holy creature in the GermRnic 1a o impression upon the Teutonic nomen- clature as a glance at any list of Anglo Saxon. German or Morse personal names will show. For instance. the Land nama-bok" alone shows forty-two Biorns. without counting the com pounds.
 The deuterotheme is the AnGlo-Saxon beard. hard, strong brave Old High GeE man harti. hart. Middle and New High German hart. hard" English hard 
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