The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-07
Surndmes of The Southland
 Their Origin and Meaning
NUMBER XXXWI
RY SAMUEL GRANT 0LIPHANT, A. M- fh. D.
 Olivet, Michigan.


Godi. Goti. Godo. Goto. are the usual forms of the prototheme and frid. frit, fred. fret and firth for the deutero- theme. Occasionally an initial TX" or "C'' is found, sometimes medal "th" or "tt' or "dd." The reader may make his own combinations and most of them can be duplicated from the records.
 Gottfrid, Abbot of St. Quentin in the beginning of the eleventh century. had two distinguished godsons, one the sainted bishop of Amiens, the other Godefroid de Bouillon, the doughty and illustrious leader of the first Crusade. The latter, unanimously chosen King of Jerusalem by the victorious rem nant of his army. and refusing a crown of gold in a city where his Savior had had only a crown of thorns, made his name popular among all the nations that served upder his banner. It was thus that the name gained its vogue in England and France, although II was already well known in the latter among the Angeyins in the Gallicized form Geoffroi which became Goeffrey in England. s
 Godfrlth and Godefrith were known but never common in Anglo Saxon days. Godefrid Is found in the Domesday, both as a tenant-in -chlef and as an undertenant. The surname Is frequent on the Hundred Rolls of 1273 and in many forms. Among those most like the original we may mention Geffray, Geffrey, fl. Geffrei, fl. Godfrey, Code fray, etc. The form Godfrey Is now rare as a surname. Godfrey is snu- merically strongest in Cambridgeshire where the family has been established over six centuries. ss
 Godfrey or Godfrey signifies "having g the peace of God" a bahuvrihi com pound. and indicates that the name was originally bestowed with the pious wish of the parents for the peace of God to dwell with their offspring. It Is noteworthy that nearly all of those who first bore the name were eccles- iastics.
 The prototheme Is the old High Ger man got. Old Saxon. Dutch, Anglo Saxon and English God. Gothic guth, God" For the further history and cognates see under Goodloe in No. 1O of this series.
 The deuterotheme Is the Old High German fridu, Old Saxon fridhu, Old Morse frithr. Anglo Saxon freotho or frithu, Gothic fritha, peace" The Teutonlc radical is that found in the Gothic frijon ito love-" whence fridu | is literally "state of love-" Among | the many cognates are the Anglo-Sax- | on freond, English friend, literally "the loving one" Friday. the day of Freya the goddess of love-" Old Irish riar twill, pleasure" Old Slavonic prijazn | love-" prijateli. friend. lover" Ayes tan frinaiti ito love-" fryo dear, sanskrit priyas "dear." prinati ito re l joice. have pleasure in."
 | This surname Is ancient but rare | The published records of the Old Higf German seem to contain but solitar, | instance. Perhtman is found in tn, 1 Libri Confraternitatum St. Cali | Switzerland, without date attached. | We next find the name in Englant 1 where Brihtman was a tenant In -Suf | folk in the days before the Domesda, | book was made. John Brithman, witt his name thus misspelled, lived In Nor folk at the time of the Hundred Rolls 1273. There was at least one Bright man in London in 1501 and the Com mercial Directory of that city for 1S7 has just one of the name. The nam
 Is most frequent in Bedfordshire, wher
 1t had already attained some local not
 as early as the reign of King James
 The Surnalpe1is patronymiyS signi
 flying tthe son of Brightman" Tn
 personal name should appear in Anglo
 Saxon as Boerthman. of which Brinht
 man cited above Is a late variant. Tn
 Old High German form is Beraht
 man(n). of which the Perehtman of St
 Gall Is & variant. This name ;signifie
 "the bright, 1. e. illustrious, man"
 The prototheme Is the ola High Ger
 man beraht, peraht, Anglo-Saxo
 beorht, bright, illustrious. renowned.
 The Anglo-Saxon word has become tn
 English bright" See under Robert
 in No. XV of ths series for additiona
 details.
 The deuterotheme is the Old Hig
 German mann. Anglo-Saxon man. fo which see under Tillman in No. VI 0
 this series.
 JeRery, Jefferson, Jeffertes. It seems to have been due to tn Breton influence that the initial "G