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Fischer is a German occupational surname, meaning fisherman. The name Fischer is the fourth most common German surname. The name Fischer is the fourth most common German surname. The English version is Fisher .
Storge (/ ˈ s t ɔːr ɡ i / STOR-gee; [1] from Ancient Greek στοργή (storgḗ) 'love, affection'), [2] or familial love, refers to natural or instinctual affection, [1] [3] such as the love of a parent towards offspring and vice versa. In social psychology, another term for love between good friends is philia. [3]
Some words in English have been reanalyzed as a base plus suffix, leading to suffixes based on Greek words, but which are not suffixes in Greek (cf. libfix). Their meaning relates to the full word they were shortened from, not the Greek meaning: -athon or -a-thon (from the portmanteau word walkathon, from walk + (mar)athon).
Leonard Fisher (1881–1963), English Anglican bishop; Leonard Everett Fisher (1924–2024), American artist; Les Fisher (born 1941), Royal Australian Air Force officer; Leslie Fisher (1906–1988), English Anglican priest; Lester E. Fisher, American zoologist; Lettice Fisher (1875–1956), British economist; Levar Fisher (born 1979), American ...
Chondro-: meaning "fat". Gero-: meaning "old" or "wise". Hadji-: the Arabic honorific for one who has made the Hadj or pilgrimage, used in the case of Christians for a voyage to Jerusalem, for example "Hatzipanagis". Kara-: from the Turkish word for "black", [12] for example "Karatasos". In Ottoman Turkish, "kara" also meant "brave", though ...
The surname Story (and its variant spelling Storey) is English, but Old Norse in origin. [1] The name originates from the Old Norse personal epithet “Stóri”, a derivative of “Storr” which means “large” or “big”. It has been established that the root of the name is “Storr”.
Fisker is a Scandinavian surname meaning 'fisher' ... Its English cognate is the surname Fisher. [1] People ... Fischer (surname) Polish: Fiszer ...
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).