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English, Scottish, German, and Dutch
English, Scottish, German, and Dutch : from Middle English, Middle High German, Middle Dutch horn ‘horn’, applied in a variety of senses: as a metonymic occupational name for someone who made small articles, such as combs, spoons, and window lights, out of horn; as a metonymic occupational name for someone who played a musical instrument made from the horn of an animal; as a topographic name for someone who lived by a horn-shaped spur of a hill or tongue of land in a bend of a river, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this element (for example, in England, Horne in Surrey on a spur of a hill and Horn in Rutland in a bend of a river); as a nickname, perhaps referring to some feature of a person’s physical appearance, or denoting a cuckolded husband.Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from Old Norse horn ‘horn’, ‘spur of land’.Swedish : ornamental or topographic name from horn ‘horn’, ‘spur of land’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : presumably from German Horn ‘horn’, adopted as a surname for reasons that are not clear. It may be purely ornamental, or it may refer to the ram’s horn (Hebrew shofar) blown in the Synagogue during various ceremonies.
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Northern Irish
Northern Irish : reduced form of McCombs.English : variant of Coombs.
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English and North German
English and North German : occupational name for a maker of pins or pegs (or alternatively, in the case of the German name, a metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker), a derivative of Pinn, with the addition of the agent suffix -er.English : occupational name for a maker or user of combs, Anglo-Norman French peigner, an agent derivative of peigne ‘comb’.English : habitational name from Pinner, now part of northwest London, which derives its name from Old English pinn ‘pin’, ‘peg’ + Åra ‘slope’, ‘ridge’, describing a projecting hill spur.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from Pinne (Polish Pniewy) near PoznaÅ„.German : habitational name for someone from a place called Pinnan or Pinne.
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English
English : occupational name from Middle English combere, an agent derivative of Old English camb ‘comb’, referring perhaps to a maker or seller of combs, or to someone who used them to prepare wool or flax for spinning. This was an alternative process to carding, and caused the wool fibers to lie more or less parallel to one another, so that the cloth produced had a hard, smooth finish without a nap.English : variant of Coomber.Probably an Americanized spelling of German Kommer or Kammer.
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Boy/Male
Hindu
Another name of the Sun
Girl/Female
Indian
Part of Lord Rudra
Boy/Male
Tamil
Sukandhiya | ஸà¯à®•ாநà¯à®¤à¯€à®¯à®¾Â
Acceptable heart
Boy/Male
Hindu
God knowledge
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya, Sanskrit, Telugu
A Scholar
Girl/Female
Greek Scottish American Persian English
Pearl.
Boy/Male
Indian
Shriram
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Related to Ice
Female
English
English name derived from the vocabulary word, myrtle, the name of a flowering shrub or tree, derived from the Old French diminutive myrtille, MYRTLE means "little myrtle."
Boy/Male
Tamil
The god-like person of the family
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n.
A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originally called xylonite.
n.
One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.
n.
One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
n.
A hard, black variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and polished, and is used for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus.
n. pl.
A class of Coelenterata, commonly ellipsoidal in shape, swimming by means of eight longitudinal rows of paddles. The separate paddles somewhat resemble combs.
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A manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether with or without a veil, ribbons, combs, etc.
a.
Interlaced, like two combs.
n.
The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool.