Origin of the name CHAMPION Back

Origin

CHAMPION : A soldier, one that fought in public combat in his own or another man's quarrel.

KEMP : In old English, a soldier, one who engaged in single combat The name Kemp is derived from the Saxon word to kemp, or combat, which in Norfolk is retained to this day; a foot-ball match being called a camping or kemping; and thus in Saxon a Kemper signifies a combatant, a champion, a man-at-arms. In some parts of Scotland the striving of reapers in the harvest-field is still called kemping.

KEMPSTER : From the Dutch kampen, to fight, or temper, a champion.

KIMBERLEY : Kernperlike, kemper, a veteran, a stouti, warlike man, from the Dutch kamper, a champion, a fighting-man. The name may apply to the qualities of the person, or to the place of a camp or battle, that is, Camper-ley; Cumberley indicates a place among hillft in a narrow valley, from Cum, a vale, a dell.

McKIB : (Celtic or Gaelic.) The son of a dog; figuratively, the son of a champion. The Britons, Celts, and Gauls, applied the names of various animals to their heroes, indicative of strength, endurance, courage, or swiftness. This name is derived from Mac, son, and cu, kei, or ki, a wolf-dog. The common hound was called Gayer.

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