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Troy Derives from the Ancient Greek City of Troy; Foot-soldier
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Irish (Munster) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Troighthigh ‘descendant of Troightheach’, a byname meaning ‘foot soldier’.English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Troyes in Aude, France. There was also an Anglo-Norman family of this name in Ireland.Americanized form of some like-sounding Jewish surname or an Americanized spelling of Treu.French : habitational name from a place in the Haute-Garonne.Dutch : from a short form of the female personal name Geertrui(de), Dutch form of Gertrude (see Trude).Dutch : from Middle Dutch troye ‘doublet’, ‘jerkin’, possibly a metonymic occupational name for a tailor, or a nickname for someone who wore a striking garment of this kind.
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Troy derives from the ancient Greek city of Troy; also from an Irish surname meaning 'soldier.
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English : from the personal name Perceval, first found as the name of the hero of an epic poem by the 12th-century French poet Crestien de Troyes, describing the quest for the holy grail. The origin of the name is uncertain; it may be associated with the Gaulish personal name Pritorīx or it may be an alteration of the Celtic name Peredur (see Priddy). It seems to have been altered as the result of folk etymological association with Old French perce(r) ‘to pierce or breach’ + val ‘valley’.English : Norman habitational name from either of the two places in Calvados named Perceval.
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French Arthurian Legend name probably GRINGOLET means either "white-hardy" or "handsome-hardy." This was the name of Sir Gawain's horse, famous for his ability in combat. He first appears in Chretien de Troyes's Erec and Enide where he is borrowed by Sir Kay for a joust against Sir Erec.
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Curly haired.
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Variant spelling of French Blancheflour, BLANCHEFLEUR means "white flower." In Arthurian legend, this was the name of the sweetheart of Perceval in Chrétian de Troyes' Perceval, le Conte du Graal.
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English surname of French origin, transferred to forename use, TROY means "from Troyes."
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