Georgie en · PROPN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈd͡ʒɔɹd͡ʒi/ (General-American)
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Etymology
Diminutives + -ie.
Meanings
- A diminutive of the male given name George.
- A diminutive of the female given name Georgina.
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Georgie en · PROPN · etymology 2
Etymology
From Middle English Georgie (“Georgia”), from Middle French Georgie, from Medieval Latin Geōrgia.
Meanings
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(obsolete) Georgia (a medieval country in the South Caucasus, approximately coextensive with modern Georgia).
THe realme of Georgie toward thorient hath agret mountayn / which is named Abbers & is inhabited with many diuers nations of peple. And for that cause it is named the countrey Alayne.
c. 1520, Hayton of Corycus, “The land of Aſye”, in Rycharde Pynſon, transl., La Flor des estoires de la terre d'Orient [A lytell cronycle], Rycharde Pynſon:And after he addreſſed an armie againſt the Soldan of Egipt & the Sarazins of the which his purpose Caſſan aduertiſed the kings of Armenia & Georgie, who with their armies came & ioyned with him at Baudras, and from thence marched to the towne of Hames.
1600, Uberto Foglietta, translated by Robert Carr, The Mahumetane or Turkiſh Hiſtorie […] , London: Thomas Eſte, page 22:In that Citie (of Vaxnan) Frier Bernard Cathalane, of the Order of the Preaching Friers found me; who abode in Georgie, with a certaine Prior of the Sepulcher, who poſſeſſeth great lands there. And he had learned ſomewhat of the Tartars language.
1625, [Samuel] Purchas, “The Iournall of Frier William De Rubruquis […]”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 3rd part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 50: