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hey, i have a first name that i wear ever since i was born " landry", i have tried to find out musch about its origin in vain. recentlty i find out that it mean the owner of a land. anything more on that?
i'd like to make it my surname and add isaak as my firstname, is there any difference in meaning of isaak and isaac( i know this means "He laughs" any more suggestion on this.
i'd like to make it my surname and add isaak as my firstname, is there any difference in meaning of isaak and isaac( i know this means "He laughs" any more suggestion on this.
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I couldn't find LANDRY as a given name, but I can imagine you had to suffer a lot from being teased as "laundry".
But after all this does not have to be wrong. According th the Oxford Dictionary of Surnames there is:
Landray, Landrey, Landry, Laundry
(1)
Landri, Landric(us) 1086 (Derbyshire)
Wilhelmus filius Landrei 1219 (Lincolnshire)
Gerard Landri 1198 (Devonshire)
Old French "Landry", Old German "Landric(us)" (land-ruler)
(2)
Ricardus de la Lavandaria 1219 (Somerset)
Robert de la Lauendrie 1278
"worker in a wash-house", Middle English "lavendrie"
Now to ISAAC:
The Hebrew name is Yitskhak with a CH-sound like in Loch Ness.
It means “he laughs” or rather “he smiles” i.e. he (God) looks at the child with a merciful smile.
Andy ;—)
But after all this does not have to be wrong. According th the Oxford Dictionary of Surnames there is:
Landray, Landrey, Landry, Laundry
(1)
Landri, Landric(us) 1086 (Derbyshire)
Wilhelmus filius Landrei 1219 (Lincolnshire)
Gerard Landri 1198 (Devonshire)
Old French "Landry", Old German "Landric(us)" (land-ruler)
(2)
Ricardus de la Lavandaria 1219 (Somerset)
Robert de la Lauendrie 1278
"worker in a wash-house", Middle English "lavendrie"
Now to ISAAC:
The Hebrew name is Yitskhak with a CH-sound like in Loch Ness.
It means “he laughs” or rather “he smiles” i.e. he (God) looks at the child with a merciful smile.
Andy ;—)
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