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Amyas

Amyas proper noun: a male given name from Latin.

Proper noun

Amyas

  1. (literary, rare) A male given name from Latin.
    • The morrow next about the wanted howre, / The Dwarfe cald at the doore of Amyas, / To come forthwith unto his Ladies bowre.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 59
    • Because there was fellow-feeling of old in merry England, in county and in town; and these are Devon men, and men of Bideford, whose names are Amyas Leigh of Burrough, John Staveley, Michael Heard, and Jonas Marshall of Bideford, and Thomas Braund of Clovelly: and they, the first of all English...1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, Macmillan and Co., published 1871, page 17

Origin of Amyas

From Old French Amis, a given name and nickname, from Latin amīcus (“friend”). Later interpreted as a masculine form of Amy.

Questions about Amyas

What does Amyas mean?
Amyas means a male given name from Latin.
What part of speech is Amyas?
Amyas is a proper noun.

Words near Amyas in the dictionary

  1. AMWFs
  2. Amy
  3. Amy-John
  4. Amy-Johns
  5. Amya
  6. Amyas
  7. amyboid
  8. Amyclas
  9. amyddest
  10. amyddst
  11. amydricaine

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