Origin
Bride : 1: Irish and Scottish: shortened form of McBride.2: English: metathesized form of Bird.
Aveley : 1: perhaps a variant of Averley or vice versa. Compare Martha Averley 1787 Martha Aveley 1788 William Aveley 1833 in IGI (Soham Cambs). 2: from Aveley (Essex) a few miles east of the old City of London. The place-name is recorded as Aluithelea in 1086 Alviueleia in 1157 Alvyleye in 1272–1307 and Alveley Aveley in 1535. It derives from the Old English female personal name Ælfgȳð + Old English lēah ‘open woodland’.perhaps an occasional pronunciation of Avery with [l] for [r] or vice versa. Compare John Averey 1621 in IGI (Saint Bride Fleet Street London). 3: perhaps from Avely Hall in Assington (Suffolk) a few miles south-east of Sudbury although the surname evidence is slight and may belong with (1) or (2) or have a different but unknown origin. The place-name is recorded as Aluenelega in 1086 Alwyneleye in 1298 Alvyngley alias Alweley in 1518–29 and Alveley alias Alvingley in 1569. It derives from the Old English female personal name Ælfwynn + Old English lēah ‘open woodland’. It is not certain that the 1340 example below belongs here.
Brideau : French: metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of bridles and harness from a derivative of Old French bride ‘bridle’.
Bridle : 1: from Bridwell in Uffculme (Devon) or Bridewell in Westbury (Wilts). The loss of -w- is common in post-medieval pronunciation of names in -well. It was occasionally retained or restored in the modern surname forms Bridewell and Bridwell. These names derive from Old English wella wiella ‘stream spring’ and the first element is brȳd ‘bride’ (or in the Devon name possibly bridd ‘bird’). 2: perhaps from Bride Hall in Sandridge (Herts) which is recorded as Brydelle 1294 and (as a surname) 1307 in Place-Names of Herts; its origin is uncertain.alternatively a variant of Britwell with intervocalic voicing of -t- to -d- and reduction of -well to -le -ell or -all as in (1). 3: perhaps occasionally a variant of Brittall (see Brettell) with intervocalic voicing of -t- to -d-.
Bridwell : English (Wiltshire): habitational name from Bridwell in Uffculme (Devon) or Bridewell in Westbury (Wiltshire) both of which are probably named after a well or spring dedicated to Saint Bride or a stream frequented by birds (Old English bridd + wella ‘well spring stream’). Compare Bridewell.
Im : 1: Korean: written 임 and 림 in Chinese characters 林 meaning ‘forest’. There are actually two Chinese characters for this surname. The founding ancestors of all Korean Im clans were originally from China. Some sources indicate that there are 216 clans that use the most common character (林) but only two – the Naju Im family and the P’ŏngt’aek Im family – have actually been documented. The founding ancestor of the P’yŏngt’aek Im family Im P’algŭp immigrated to Korea from China during the Tang Dynasty and settled in the P’yŏngt’aek area. The Naju Im clan is said to be descended from the P’ŏngt’aek Im clan. Members of the Im clans which use this more common Chinese character are found throughout the peninsula. Compare Lim 2 and Rim.2: Korean: written 임 in Chinese characters 任 meaning ‘to entrust’. Although some sources indicate that there are 120 Im clans that use this Chinese character only two of these are documented: the Im clan of Changhŭng and the Im clan of P’ungch’ŏn. The founders of these two clans are also from China. The founders of both the Changhŭng Im clan and the P’ungch’ŏn Im clan came to Korea during the Koryŏ period (AD 918–1392) the latter while escorting a princess bride to the Koryŏ court. About fifty percent of the Ims bearing the less common character as a surname live in South Ch’ungch’ŏng province. Compare Lim 2 Rim and Yim 4.3: Cambodian: written អ៊ឹម (also អឹម) of Chinese origin from 任 (see Ren 1) but also corresponding to the Khmer word meaning e.g. ‘to nurse’. អ៊ឹម or អឹម may alternatively be the Khmer spelling of the Chinese surname 林 (see Lin 1).4: Chinese: alternative Cantonese form of the surname 嚴 see Yan 1.5: Chinese: Teochew or Hokkien form of the surname 陰 see Yin 3.
Kirkbride : Scottish and English (Cumbria): habitational name from a place in Cumbria near Carlisle named from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + the Irish saint's name Bride (see Kilbride).
Morrall : English (Staffordshire and Warwickshire):: 1: habitational name from a lost place called Morghull situated between Lichfield and Streethay in Staffordshire. The placename may derive from Old English morgen-gifu ‘morning gift land given by a man to his bride on the morning after their marriage’ + halh ‘nook corner of land’.2: habitational name from Murrell Green in Odiham (Hampshire) Moor Hall in Gnosall (Staffordshire) Moor Hall in Aughton by Ormskirk (Lancashire) or numerous other minor places with similar names. Most of the placenames derive from Old English mōr ‘moor’ + halh ‘nook corner of land’ or hall ‘hall’. There may have been some confusion with Morrell.
Veselka : Czech:: 1: nickname for a cheerful person from a noun derivative of veselý ‘cheerful’ (see Vesely).2: from veselka ‘marriage’ an ironic nickname for someone who wanted to marry but could not find a bride.
Weist : 1: German (Silesia): probably a nickname from Middle High German wīsot wīset ‘gift or obligatory payment (in kind) on certain holidays to a bride church or the overlord’.2: German (Saxony-Anhalt): topographic name from the field name Weist probably from Weidicht ‘property land with willows’.
Yearley : variant of Earley with prosthetic Y-. Compare Richard Early 1589 Roberte Yearley 1625 in IGI (Saint Bride Fleet Street London); Elinor Yearley 1720 Edward Earley 1740 in IGI (Broseley Shrops).
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Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
FANBI : The Oxford Dictionary if Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ©2016, University of the West of England
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