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1. Anglo-Norman, also known as Anglo-Norman French (Norman: Anglo-Normaund), was a dialect of Old Norman French that was used in England and, to a lesser extent, elsewhere in Great Britain and Ireland during the Anglo-Norman period.
2. At first these French lords spoke their own Norman-French, while the people whom they had enslaved spoke Anglo-Saxon or English.
3. The name Amble is for a person employed as an enameller, and derives from the Anglo-Norman-French amayler, of the same meaning
4. From ancient origins in the Celtic, Norse or Norman-French traditions, by the 13th century, the Clans had grown firm roots in the Highlands of Scotland
5. English and Scottish: metonymic occupational name for someone employed in the cellars of a great house or monastery, from Anglo-Norman French celler ‘cellar’ (Old French cellier), or a reduction of the Middle English agent derivative Cellerer.
6. Topics War and conflict c2 Word Origin Middle English (in the general sense ‘disturbance, fray’): from Anglo-Norman French Afrayer ‘disturb, startle’, based on an element of Germanic origin related to Old English frithu ‘peace, safety’ (compare with German Friede ‘peace’).
7. ‘Wood, if carefully chosen, Carpentered, and prepared, makes an excellent support on which to paint.’ Origin Middle English from Anglo-Norman French, from Old French carpentier, charpentier, from late Latin carpentarius (artifex) ‘carriage (maker)’, from carpentum ‘wagon’, of Gaulish origin; related to car .
8. ‘The great Bustard, the world's heaviest flying bird, was widely distributed in England until the end of the 18th century.’ Origin Late 15th century perhaps an Anglo-Norman French blend of Old French bistarde and oustarde, both from Latin avis tarda ‘slow bird’ the name is …
9. ‘The great Bustard, the world's heaviest flying bird, was widely distributed in England until the end of the 18th century.’ Origin Late 15th century perhaps an Anglo-Norman French blend of Old French bistarde and oustarde, both from Latin avis tarda ‘slow bird’ the name is …
10. William Ætheling (Middle English: [ˈwiliəm ˈaðəliŋɡ], Old English: [ˈæðeliŋɡ]; 5 August 1103 – 25 November 1120), commonly called Adelin, sometimes Adelinus, Adelingus, A(u)delin or other Latinised Norman-French variants of Ætheling, was the son of Henry I of England by his wife Matilda of Scotland, and was thus heir apparent to the English throne.
11. Last name meaning Blaver: This interesting and unusual surname with variant spellings Blavier, Blev(i)er, Blavir, Blavor, Bliver etc., recorded in European and English church registers from the mid 17th Century, is believed to be a patronymic form of the Norman-French occupational name "laveur", washer, the initial "b" being a shortening of the Celtic prefix "ab", son of, especially common in