written Hafiz (hä/fiz) Hahnemann (hä/neh män) Hǎk/lyt; also Hackluyt. Ha-lō'ran Hån/del (Ger. Händel, In'ge-low (e-re-aR/ta.) Syn. Yriarte. [da) Iturbide (e-toor/beIvan (Russ.) (e-vän') J. Jacobi (yä-ko/bee) Jamieson (jam'e-son or jā/mi-son) Jean Paul (zhon powl or jeen pawl) Jellachich (yel/lä-KiK) Joan of Arc (Fr. Jeanne d'Arc, zhän dark/) [zhwǎN/vel') Joinville (join'vil or Jouffroy (zhoof'frwä') [us) Juarez (H00-ä/res or Hwä/rĕth) Herder (her/der or Junot (zhü'no') hĕr/der) Herrera (ĕR-Ra'rä) Herschel (her'shel) K. Hewes (hūz) Heylin (hä/lin) Heyne (hingh) Kant (kǎnt or känt) Kantemir Heyse (hi/zeh) Heywood (ha/wood) Hogarth (ho'garth) Holbein (hol/bin) Holinshed, or Hollynshed (hŏl'inz-hĕd) Holmes (hōmz) Houdon (oo/dUN') Houghton (ho/ton) Houston (popularly pronounced hū'ston) (kän'te meer) Kavanagh (kav'a-nä or kav/a-näн') Kearney (kar'ní) Keble (kěb/l) Keightly (kit/lee) Kneller (nel/ler; Ger. pron. kneller) Knolles (nolz); written also Knollys (nōlz) Knowles (nōlz) | Liebig (lee/big) 319 Körner, or Koerner Lingard (ling/gard) (köR/ner) [ko) Linnæus (lin-nee/us) Kosciusko (kos-si-us/- Linnell (lin'nel) Kossuth (kosh'shoot') Liszt (list) Kotzebue (kot/seh- Lloyd (loid) bu; Ger. pron. kot/sch-boo) Krummacher(kroom/mäk-er) L. Lacroix (lä/krwä') Ladislas (lád/is-las); written also Lad'isla'us. La Fayette, or Lafayette (lä/fa-ět') Laffitte (läf'fit' or läfet') La Fontaine (lä fon/ [va/gä) Lope de Vega (lo/pä da Lothaire (lo-ther or lo-têr') Loudon (lou'don) Louis (loo/is; Fr. pron. loo'e') Lamartine (lä/maR- Mackay (ma-ka' and Magellan (ma-jel/lan; Sp. pron. mä-Hĕlyän') Maginn (ma-gin') Mahmud, or Mahmoud (mäh/mood') Mahomet (ma-hom/et, ma/ho-met, or mä/ho-met). See Mohammed. Mahon (ma-hoon' or ma-hōn') Maintenon (mǎnt/non' or man/te-non) Malcolm (mål/kom) Malone (ma-lōn/) Malte Brûn (mawlt brun' or mält/ebrun') Mantell(mănth) 320 Marat (mä/rä') Marie-Antoinette MODERN BIOGRAPHICAL NAMES. Marion (Am.) (măr/eMarlborough (mawl'b'ro) Montague Martineau (Eng.) (mar/ti-nō) Marlowe (mar/lō) Martel (mar/tel') O. Öhlenschläger, or Oehlenschläger (ö'lenshla/ger) (mon/ta- Oberlin (o/ber-lin) Montaigne (mon/tan; Ogilby (o'g'l-bi) Fr. pron. montañ') Ogilvie (o'g'l-vi) Montalembert (moNMasaniello (mä-sä-ne- tä/lon/bêR') [käm') Mas/sa-soit' [el/lo) Montcalm (montMasséna (mäs-sä/nä; Montecuccoli (mon/tàFr. pron. mä'sa'nä') kook/ko-lee) Massillon (mas/sil-lon Montespan (mon'těs (măs/sin or mäs/se/yoN') Massinger jer) Mather (math/er) Maturin (mat/yoo-rin) Maunder (mawn/der) Maury (Am.) (maw/ri and măr/ri) Maury (Fr.) (mō're') Mazarin (măz/a-reen'; Fr. pron. mä/za/rǎn') Mazzini (mät-see/nee or mä-zee/nee) Meagher (ma'er) Medici (med'e-chee) Médicis (ma/de/sess' or med'e-sis) Motteux (mot-too/) nik or met/ter-nik) Murat (mü'rä' or mu Olmstead (um/sted or ŏm/sted) O'Meara (o-mee/ra; P. (oks'en Po/cocke Poin-sett' Polk (polk or pōk) Pombal (pom-bal') Pompadour (pom/pa door' or poм/pä/dooR') Ponce de Leon (pōn'- Priessnitz (preess/nits) Pugin (pū jin) Pulaski (pu-lǎs/kee; Pol. pron. poo-läs'kee) Palgrave Pascal (pås/kal; Fr. in; Fr. pron. pehpǎN') Pepys (pěps) [see) Pestalozzi (pes-tä-lotPetrarch (pee/trärk) (It. Petrarca, patrar/kä) Piccolomini lom/e-nee) (pik-ko Pierce (peerss or perss) Rembrandt brǎnt) Ren'nell MODERN BIOGRAPHICAL NAMES. (rem- Saussure (sō'sūr' or SO/SÜR') [il) Reuchlin (roik/lin) Jean Paul. Rienzi (re-en/zee), or Rienzo (re-en/zo) Rives (Amer.) (reevz) Rizzio (rêt'se-o or rit/se-o) Robespierre (ro'bespeer or robles-peer') [shon/bo') Rochambeau (ro'Rochefoucauld (rōsh/foo-kō or rosh/foo/kō') [zha') Roget (ro/zhā or ro'Romilly (Eng.) (rom/il-ĭ) Rosecrans (rōz/krǎnts) Rutherford (ruth'erford) S. Saadi. See Sadi. Sabine (săb'in) Sacheverell (sa-chev/er-el) Saintine (săn/tên) Saint-John (sent/-jon or sin'jen) [jer) Saint Leger (sillinSaint-Pierre (sentpeer or săn/pe-ên) Saint-Simon (sent-simon or săn/se/mON') Saladin (săl'a-din) Sand (Fr.) (SON) Săn/dřs (or săndz) Saunderson (sän/derson) [dä) Savile, or Saville (sav/Savonarola (sä-vo-näro/lä) Scaliger (skal/i-jer) Schelling (shel/ling) Schenck (skenk) Schiller (shil/ler) Schlegel (shla/gel or shla Gel) [er-mäк/er) Schleiermacher (shli'Schmidt (shmit) Schuyler (skiler) Scoresby (skōrz/bi) Scougal (skoo/gal) Scribe (skreb) Sepulveda (sa-pool/vaSer-ve/tus Sévigné (sa-veen'ya or sä/vên/ya') Seward (su/ard) Seymour (see'mer) Shakespeare; ten also Shakspeare and Shakspere. Shiel (sheel) Sidmouth (sid/muth) Sieyès (se-es', se-a', or se-a'ya') Sigel (see gel) [mind) Sigismund writ Spinola (spee/no-lä) Spinoza (spe-no/zä) Spurtzheim (spooRts/him or spûrz/im) Staël (stäl or stawl) Stanhope (stǎn/gp) Stanislaus (stan-is-la/us or stän-is-lä/us) Staunton (stän/ton) Steuben (Am.) (stū/Storrs (stōrz) [ben) Stowell (sto/el) Strahan and Strachan (strawn) [sant) Stuyvesant (sti veSue (su; Fr. pron. su) Suleyman (soo-lamän'). Syn. Soli (sij'is-Talbot (tawl/bot) Sigourney (sig/or-ni) Talfourd (tawl/ford) It. pron. sês-mon/dee) Slidell (sli-del') Snorri or Sturluson (snor/ree stoor/looson) Soane (son) Sobieski (so-be-ĕs/kee) Socinus (so-si'nus) Somers (sum/erz) Sontag (son/täg son/täG) Sotheby (suth'e-bf) Soule (sōl) [la') Soulé (soo-la' or soolSoulouque (soo/look') Soult (soolt) Southard (suth/ard) Southern (suth'ern) Southey (sowth/i) Sowerby (sou'cr-bl) Soyer (soi'er or swäya') Spalding (spawl'ding) and sometimes těl/ fer) Talleyrand (tâl/lĭ rand; Fr. pron. täl/la/rŎn') Tallmadge (tal/mĭj) Tamerlane (tam'erlan or tăm/er-lān) Taney (taw/ni) [so.) Tasso (It. pron. täsTassoni (täs-so'nee) Te-cum/seh [muth) Teignmouth (tin Teniers (těn'yerz; Fr. pron. teh-ne-a or ten-ya') Thackeray (thak/cr-ri) Thalberg (tal/bĕRG) Theobald (thee/o bawld or tib/bald) Thesiger (thes/I-jer) Thierry (te-er'ri or tea/rce') Thiers (te-êR') 321 väld-sen) Tieck (teek) Tighe (tī) [te/ye') Tilly (tille; Fr. pron. Timur, or Timour (tee/moor') Tintoretto (tên-toret/to) Tippoo Sahib (tĭp/po sä/hib; almost sa'ib) Tischendorf (tish/endorf) Titian (tish'an) Tocqueville (tõk/vil; French pron. tok/vel') Torquato (toR-kwä/to) Torquemada (toR-kamä/Dä) Toucey (tou'sĭ) Toussaint L'Ouver ture (too'sǎn' loo/věr/tür') [end) Townshend (townz/Trăd'es-cǎnt Trowbridge (tro/brij) Tyndale (tin/dal). Tyrwhitt (ter/it or ter/wit) U. Uhland (oo/länt Or yooʻland) Ulfilas, or Ulphilas V. Val-lan/di-gham (-dĭgam) [ren) Van Buren (văn bù Vanbrugh (văn/broo) Vancouver (văn-koover) Vandyke (văn-dīk/) (Dutch Vandyc, or Vandjik, vän-dik') 21 322 MODERN BIOGRAPHICAL NAMES. Van Rensselaer (văn ren/sel-ar) [tel') W. Vattel (vat-tel' or vät- Waldemar mar or wäldch- Wollstonecraft (wool' Vaughan (vaw'n or mår) Vaux (Eng. & Am.) Velasquez (và-läs/kěz Vespucci (věs-poot/- Vicente (ve-sen/tâ) Vidocq (ve/dok') [stin) ston-kräft) Worcester (woos/ter) Wallenstein (wollen- Wolsey (wool/zi) Wargentin (wär'gen- Wordsworth (wûrdz/- Weber (wa/ber or wa- Wellesley (wělz/lĭ) or Whalley (hwŏl/lĭ) Vladimir (vlăd/g-mêr) Volney (vŏlni; Fr. pron. vol/nā') Voltaire (vol-têr or vol'têR') Vortigeru (vor/te länt) Willoughby (wil/lo-bi) (wow/ Y. Yonge (yung) Youatt (yoo'at) Z. tsĭm/mer[dorf) Wraxall (råks/al or Zim'mer-männ (Ger. ver-män) Winckelmann (wink'- Xavier (zăv/ĭ-er; Sp. něs) pron. män) Zinzendorf (tsint/sen- Zschokke (tshok/keh) ā, ē, &c., long; ă, ě, &c., short; câre, fär, åsk, all, what; êre, veil, tërm; pïque, firm ; PRONOUNCING AND EXPLANATORY VOCABULARY OF COMMON ENGLISH CHRISTIAN NAMES. A. I. NAMES OF MEN. Aaron (âr/un). [Heb.] Lofty; inspired. A'bel. [Heb.] Breath; transitoriness; vanity. A-bi'el. [Heb.] Father of strength. A-bijah. [Heb.] To whom Jehovah is a Father. [light. Ab'ner. [Heb.] Father of A'bra-ham. [Heb.] Father of a multitude. [elevation. Abram. [Heb.] Father of Ad'am. [Heb.] Man; earthman; red earth. A-dŏl'phus. [0. H. Ger.] Noble wolf, i. e. noble hero. Ad'o-ni'ram. [Heb.] Lord of height. Al'a-rie. [0. H. Ger.] Allrich; or, noble ruler. Albert. [0. H. Ger.] Nobly bright; illustrious. Al'bi-on. [Celt.] Mountainous land; the ancient name of England. Alex-ăn’der. [Gr.] A de fender of men. Alfred. [0. H. Ger.] Elf in council; i. e., good counselor. [ALPHONSO. A-lŎn'zo. [0. Ger.] Same as Al'phe-us (properly Al-phe/us). [Heb.] Exchange. Al-phon'so. [O. H. Ger.] Allready; willing. Al'vah, [Heb.] Iniquity. Al'van. Am'brose. [Gr.] Immortal; | Ben'e-diet. [Lat.] Blessed. divine. Am'mi. [Heb.] My people. A'mcs. [Heb.] Strong; courageous; otherwise, a burden. An'drew (ăndry). [Gr.] tection of God. [Lat.] An'tho-ny (-to-), An'to-nỹ. J Priceless; praiseworthy. Är'chi-bald. [Ger.] Extremely bold; otherwise, holy prince. Är'te-mas. [Gr.] Gift of Artemis, or Diana. Är'thur. [Celt.] High; noble. A'sa. [Heb.] Healer; phy[God. sician. As'a-hěl. [Heb.] Made of A'saph. [Heb.] A collector. Ash'er. [Heb.] Happy; fort[ness. unate. [Lat.] Dim-sighted. Cephas. [Aramaic.] A stone. Ash'ur. [Heb.] Black; black- Charles. [O. H. Ger.] Strong; Au-güs'tin, [Lat.] Belong- manly; noble-spirited. Au-gustine, ing to Au-Christ'ian. [Lat.] BelongAus'tin. gustus. ing to Christ; a believer in Au-gus'tus. [Lat.] Exalted; Christ. [ing Christ. imperial. [of the Lord. Chris'to-pher. [Gr.] BearAz'a-ri'ah. [Heb.] Helped Clǎr'ençe. [Lat.] Illustrious. Clau'di-us, [Lat.] Lame. Claude. Elem'ent. [Lat.] Mild-tempered; merciful. €on'rad. [0. H. Ger.] Bold in council; resolute. €ŏn'stant. [Lat.] Firm; faithful. €ön'stan-tine. olute; firm. Cor-ne li-us (or kor-neekyus). [Lat.] (Uncertain.) Al'vin, [0. H. Ger.] Be- Bar-thŏl'o-mew. [Heb.] A warlike son. Am'a-ri'ah. [Heb.] Whom | Bar-zil'lãi. [Heb.] Iron of Jehovah promised. Am'a-så. [Heb.] A burden. the Lord; firm; true. Băş'il. [Gr.] Kingly; royal. [Lat.] Res son, ôr, dọ, wolf, too, took; ûrn, rye, pyll; ç, g, soft; ́e, ÿ', hard; ag; exist; nas ng; this. |