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Ermengarde

Ermengarde proper noun: a female given name from Old English.

Proper noun

Ermengarde

  1. (rare) A female given name from Old English.
    • "What is your name?" she said. [...] "My name's Ermengarde St. John," she answered. / "Mine is Sara Crewe," said Sara. "Yours is very pretty. It sounds like a story-book."1905, Frances Hodgson Burnett, “Ermengarde”, in A Little Princess: […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 26

Origin of Ermengarde

From the Old English name reinforced by its Norman cognate, from Proto-Germanic *ermunaz (“all,whole”) + *gardaz (“enclosure”), "strong protection". Cognate with the German saint's name Irmgard.

Questions about Ermengarde

What does Ermengarde mean?
Ermengarde means a female given name from Old English.
What part of speech is Ermengarde?
Ermengarde is a proper noun.

Words near Ermengarde in the dictionary

  1. erme
  2. ermed
  3. ermelin
  4. ermelins
  5. Ermelo
  6. Ermengarde
  7. Ermentraut
  8. ermergerd
  9. ermin
  10. ermine
  11. ermine moth

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