[ANSTHRLD] Re: Godfrey de Main Gauche

doug bell magnus77840 at hotmail.com
Thu Jun 27 23:48:43 PDT 2002


>Godfrey de Main Gauche -- submitter wants the last
>name to be "of the Left Hand" in French.

Reaney & Wilson Page 186 s.n. Gauche gives John Gauch
from 1260 Old French gauche 'left-handed, awkward'
from the Cambridge assize rolls.

Withycombe page 136 s.n. Godfrey gives Godfrey from 1273
as a given name.

Morlet, Marie-Therese, Dictionnaire etymologique Des Noms De Famille,
Librairie Academique Perrin, 1997.
Page 467 s.n. Godefroi gives Godfrey as a personal name
of German origin.
Page 448 s.n. Gauche gives it from an adjective 'gauche'
meaning maladroit attested to the 16th century.
s.n. Gauch gives that spelling as an Occitan surname
for a joyful person.  Don't think that is what he
is looking for though.

Godfrey Gauch or Gauche would mean Godfrey the left-
handed. There would be no de since this isn't a locative.

bon voyage
Magne de Lubke



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