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  2. Gollum - Wikipedia

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    The rhyming name of his relative "Déagol" is from Old English: dÄ“agol, meaning ' secretive, hidden '. [6] In Tolkien's Red Book of Westmarch , the name "Déagol" is again supposedly a translation of the "original" name in the author-invented language of Westron , Nahald .

  3. Category:English-language surnames - Wikipedia

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    Surnames of English origin (3 C, 721 P) L. ... Pages in category "English-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,354 ...

  4. Category:Surnames of English origin - Wikipedia

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    Surnames of English origin. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Surnames of British Isles origin . It includes Surnames of British Isles origin that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.

  5. Ethnonymic surname - Wikipedia

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    Ethnonymic surnames are surnames or bynames that originate from ethnonyms.They may originate from nicknames based on the descent of a person from a given ethnic group. Other reasons could be that a person came to a particular place from the area with different ethnic prevalence, from owing a property in such area, or had a considerable contact with persons or area of other ethnicity.

  6. Gould (name) - Wikipedia

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    Origin; Language(s) England, Scotland and Ireland: Word/name: Old English: Other names; Variant form(s) Gold: Gould is a surname, a variant of "Gold" [1] Acting.

  7. Gollum (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Gollum (software), the wiki system used by the GitHub web hosting system; Gollum browser, a web application designed for using Wikipedia; Gollum or Golin language, a language of Papua New Guinea; The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, a video game; The NATO reporting name for the Smerch/Shtil-1 naval SAM in the Buk missile family

  8. Quinn (surname) - Wikipedia

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    The surname is borne by several unrelated families in Ireland, especially in the northern province of Ulster and also the counties of Clare, Longford, and Mayo. [3] According to the historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Quins were part of the Conmaicne Rein tribe in Ireland who came from the Erainn tribe who were the second wave of Celts to settle ...

  9. Holmes (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Holmes is an English-language surname with several origins.. The name can be a variant of the surname Holme. [1] This surname has several etymological origins: it can be derived from a name for someone who lived next to a holly tree, from the Middle English holm; it can also be derived from the Old English holm and Old Norse holmr. [2]