Hodder
See also: hodder
English
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Etymology
[edit]- (surname): From Middle English occupational name for a maker of hoods, from Old English hod (“hood”), from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz.
- (river): From Brythonic, said to mean "pleasant water," with the second element from Proto-Brythonic *duβr. The first element is uncertain, but compare Welsh hod (“wonderful, strange, excellent”).
Proper noun
[edit]Hodder
- An English surname originating as an occupation, for the trade name hodder
- A river in Lancashire, England, tributary to the Ribble.
References
[edit]- Lofthouse, J. (1946). Three Rivers: Being an Account of Many Wanderings in the Dales of Ribble, Hodder and Calder. United Kingdom: R. Hale limited, p. 166
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