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English
English : probably a variant of Gifford.Probably a respelling of German Gaffert, a habitational name from Gaffert near Köslin, Brandenburg, or from a personal name formed with Middle High German gate ‘fellow’, ‘companion’.
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English (chiefly northern)
English (chiefly northern) : topographic name for someone who lived by an area of high ground or by a prominent crag, from northern Middle English fell ‘high ground’, ‘rock’, ‘crag’ (Old Norse fjall, fell).English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a furrier, from Middle English fell, Middle High German vel, or German Fell or Yiddish fel, all of which mean ‘skin’, ‘hide’, or ‘pelt’. Yiddish fel refers to untanned hide, in contrast to pelts ‘tanned hide’ (see Pilcher).
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English
English : of uncertain origin; probably a variant of Catlin or Gadling, a nickname from Old English gÅ“deling ‘kinsman’, ‘companion’, but also ‘low fellow’.Possibly an altered spelling of German Göttling, from a Germanic personal name formed with god ‘god’ or gÅd ‘good’ + -ling suffix of affiliation, or, like Gättling (of which this may also be an altered form), a nickname from Middle High German getlinc ‘companion’, ‘kinsman’. Compare 1.
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English
English : variant of Feller.
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English
English : habitational name from an unidentified place, possibly Fell Beck in North Yorkshire. The name has died out in England.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from Horsefall in West Yorkshire, so named from Old English hors ‘horse’ (perhaps a byname) + fall ‘clearing’, ‘place where the trees have been felled’ (from fellan ‘to fell’, causative of feallan ‘to fall’).
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English
English : patronymic from Fellow, from Middle English felagh, felaw late Old English fēolaga ‘partner’, ‘shareholder’ (Old Norse félagi, from fé ‘fee’, ‘money’ + legja to lay down). In Middle English the term was used in the general sense of a companion or comrade, and the surname thus probably denoted a (fellow) member of a trade guild. Compare Fear 1.
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English
English : nickname from Middle English gode ‘good’ + saule, soule ‘soul’.Probably also an Americanized form of German Gutseel or Gutsell; like 1, these are a nickname for a kindly person (literally ‘good soul’). Alternatively, it could be a reduced Americanized form of south German Gutgsell, a nickname or journeyman’s name, from gut ‘good’ + Gesell(e) ‘fellow’, ‘journeyman’.
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English
English : variant of Fell.
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English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a furrier, from an agent derivative of Middle English fell, Middle Low German, Middle High German vel, or German Fell or Yiddish fel ‘hide’, ‘pelt’. See also Fell.German : variant of Felder.German : habitational name for someone from a place called Feld(e) or Feld(a) in Hesse.
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English
English : habitational name from Minskip in West Yorkshire, Manships Shaw in Surrey, or Manchips Field in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, all named with the same Old English word, gemǣnscipe ‘community’, ‘fellowship’, also ‘land held in common’.
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English
English : occupational name for a mower or reaper of grass or hay, Old English mǣðere. Compare Mead, Mower. Hay was formerly of great importance, not only as feed for animals in winter but also for bedding.English : in southern Lancashire, where it has long been a common surname, it is probably a relatively late development of Madder (see Mader).English : The prominent Mather family of New England were established in America by Richard Mather (1596–1669) in 1635. He was a Puritan clergyman from a well-established family of Lowton, Lancashire, England. After he emigrated, he was in great demand as a preacher, finally settling in Dorchester, MA. His son Increase Mather (1639–1723) was a diplomat and president of Harvard. He married his step-sister Maria Cotton, herself the daughter of an eminent Puritan divine, John Cotton. Their son Cotton Mather (1663–1728) bore both family names. The latter was a minister who is remembered for his part in witchcraft trials, but he was also a man of science and a fellow of the Royal Society in London.
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English
English : variant of Fell.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Fels.
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English
English : nickname from Middle English loller ‘indolent fellow’, a derivative of lolle ‘to droop, dangle, or loll’.English : nickname from Middle English lollere ‘mumbler’, bestowed on a pious person or on a Lollard (a follower of the 14th-century religious reformer John Wyclif).
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Scottish or Irish
Scottish or Irish : reduced form of McFall.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a waterfall, declivity, or forest clearing, Middle English fall (from Old English (ge)fall ‘a felling of trees’, Old Norse fall ‘forest clearing’).German : topographic name from Middle High German val ‘fall (of trees)’; in some cases ‘waterfall’ or ‘landslide’, or a habitational name from a minor place named with this word, or in Tyrol from Ladine val ‘valley’.African : unexplained.
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English
English : from the medieval personal name Hucke, perhaps from the Old English personal name Hucca or Ucca, which may in some cases be a pet form of Old English Ūhtrǣd. Later, however, this name fell completely out of use and the forms became inextricably confused with those of Hugh.German : topographic name from a term meaning ‘bog’.German and Dutch : from a pet form of the personal name Hugo (see Hugh).
Boy/Male
Muslim
Happy fellow
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English (chiefly West Midlands and northern England)
English (chiefly West Midlands and northern England) : topographic name for someone who lived in a house (Middle English hous) in open pasture land (see Field). Reaney draws attention to the form de Felhouse (Staffordshire 1332), and suggests that this may have become Fellows.
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English
English : nickname for a congenial companion, from Middle English gode ‘good’ + felawe ‘fellow’.
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n.
A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society.
pl.
of Fellah
a.
Without fellow or equal; peerless.
pl.
of Felly
n.
One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees.
v. t.
To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.
adv.
In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely.
n.
A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
n.
An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.
n.
A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university.
n.
In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation.
a.
Of, relating to, or derived from, bile or gall; as, fellinic acid.
n.
In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Fellowship
a.
Fellowlike.
n.
See Felly.
n.
The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity.
n.
A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts.
imp. & p. p.
of Fellowship