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Reynard en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɹɛnɑː(ɹ)d/
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈɹɛnə(ɹ)d/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English Renard, from Old French Renart (Modern renard (“fox”)), influenced by Middle Dutch Reynaerd, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Raginaharduz, from *raginą (“decision, advice, counsel”) + *harduz (“hard, strong”). Compare German Reinhard, Old High German Reginhart (“strong in counsel”).

Meanings

  1. A male given name.
  2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
  3. (literary, poetic) A name in European folklore for the red fox.
    • Reynard, in his thieving rambles, one night the summer before last visited the pleasure-gardens in Cornbury Park, and there he found and carried off a hen pheasant while sitting on her nest. The same evening a barn-door hen, with a nide of pheasants also disappeared. 1852 May, “Latitat” [pseudonym], “Anecdotes of Foxes”, in The Sportsman, London: Rogerson & Tuxford, →OCLC, page 347:
  4. A locality in the Shire of Wellington and the Shire of Mansfield, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

Deriveds

Reynardian

Relateds

Renard · Reinhart · reynard

Translations (19)

odt de vos Reynaerde (name in European folklore for the red fox) · fr Renart (name in European folklore for the red fox) · ja ルナール (name in European folklore for the red fox) · odt Reynaert (name in European folklore for the red fox) · gd gille-Màrtainn (name in European folklore for the red fox) · it Renart (name in European folklore for the red fox) · gv Ruaree Ruy (name in European folklore for the red fox) · nl Reinaart (name in European folklore for the red fox) · sv Mickel räv (name in European folklore for the red fox) · ru Рена́р (name in European folklore for the red fox) · nl Reintje (name in European folklore for the red fox) · cy Madyn (name in European folklore for the red fox) · nds Reynke (name in European folklore for the red fox) · de Reineke (name in European folklore for the red fox) · de Reineke Fuchs (name in European folklore for the red fox) · fi Mikko Repolainen (name in European folklore for the red fox) · cy Madog (name in European folklore for the red fox) · eo Renardo (name in European folklore for the red fox) · la Renartus (name in European folklore for the red fox)