Tuesday, May 5, 2009

What are the name origin for-Alyce, Carolyn and Hoskins?

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What are the name origin for-Alyce, Carolyn and Hoskins?
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Hoskins Name Meaning and History


English: patronymic from Hoskin.


Variant of Dutch Hosekin, a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of hose (garments for the legs), from Middle Low German hose 鈥榟ose鈥?





Carolyn


English and French: from the French form of Latin or Italian Carolina, a feminine derivative of Carolus (see Charles). Variant: Carolyn.


Cognates: German, Danish: Karoline. Scandinavian, Polish, Czech: Karolina.





Short forms: English: Caro (not normally used as an independent given name); Carrie.


This is the only spelling of the name I could find for Alyce.


Alice


English and French: variant of Adelaide, representing an Old French spelling of a greatly contracted version of Germanic Adalheidis. It was regarded as a distinct name when it was revived in the 19th century. It was the name of the child heroine of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1872), who was based on his child friend Alice Patience Liddell, daughter of the dean of Christ Church, Oxford. Variant: Alys.


Cognate: Irish Gaelic: Ail铆s.


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