Plant-based Names
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Period Forms:
English
- Basil - period saints name per Withycombe
- Hazel - post-period per Withycombe
- Heather - post-period per Withycombe but...
- [Felicia Heather of Newcastle] Heather is dated in Bardsley's Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames as a surname to 1633. (Jaelle of Armida, LoAR May 1999, p. 5)
- Myrtle - post-period per Withycombe
- Olive - 16th century per Withycombe
- Rose - English per Withycombe
- Rosemary - English per Withycombe
- Silvia - Italian Renaissance per Withycombe
- Violet - medieval French name per Withycombe
Hungarian
Virag
- The given name we found as a Hungarian feminine name in "The World of Names: A Study in Hungarian Onomatography" by Be/la Ka/lma/n.
- Kálmán's "World of Names" modernizes spellings and lacks dates for anything, so it should not be relied on as sole documentation.
- Fehértói under Viraag dates Wiraag to 1275 as a feminine name. There's also a heading for Viragus, with one (masculine) citation for Vyragus in 1237. (Modernly, virág is "flower", and virágos is "flowery".)
Sources:
Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Names Archive" - http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/
Database of medieval names (from the Medieval Names Archive) - http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/database/
Archive of St. Gabriel reports - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/archive.cgi
Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources - https://dmnes.org/
Laurel Name Articles - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/
IGI Searches, batches beginning with C, J, K, M (except M17 and M18), or P are acceptable - https://familysearch.org/search/collection/igi
Precedents:
Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html
Morsulus Heralds Website - http://www.morsulus.org/ (to search the LoARs and Precedents)
Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.
Collected Precedents on Flower-based names:
http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/Flower.html
- "Basil" (royal) is also the name of a herb; "Oliver" and "Perry" mean olive- and pear-tree. (KFW, 10 Mar 78 [18], p. 1)
Registerability:
From the <month> <year> LoAR:
Conflict:
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