Meaning of Royds
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Norwegian Name Meaning - dwells in the clearing in the forest.A cleared way through a wood is called a riding. The old Norse rydja meant to clear land, especially of wood, the modern Danish form of the word being rydde, and a clearance of anything is a rydning. Royd and rod; like röd in Denmark, are elsewhere common terminations, all implying the same thing.
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Phill_dvsn wrote: Norwegian Name Meaning - dwells in the clearing in the forest.A cleared way through a wood is called a riding. The old Norse rydja meant to clear land, especially of wood, the modern Danish form of the word being rydde, and a clearance of anything is a rydning. Royd and rod; like röd in Denmark, are elsewhere common terminations, all implying the same thing. In view of the closeness of the words and similarity of what it is I wonder if road is derived from royd?
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Leodian wrote: Phill_dvsn wrote: Norwegian Name Meaning - dwells in the clearing in the forest.A cleared way through a wood is called a riding. The old Norse rydja meant to clear land, especially of wood, the modern Danish form of the word being rydde, and a clearance of anything is a rydning. Royd and rod; like röd in Denmark, are elsewhere common terminations, all implying the same thing. In view of the closeness of the words and similarity of what it is I wonder if road is derived from royd? More than likely [Middle English rode, rade, a riding, road, from Old English rd; see reidh- in Indo-European roots.]
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Leodian wrote: You are clearly a multi-linguist Phill. I could say a cunning linguist but that might attract censorable comments! but I'm also a bit Ha ha, no comment
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Phill_dvsn wrote: Leodian wrote: You are clearly a multi-linguist Phill. I could say a cunning linguist but that might attract censorable comments! but I'm also a bit Ha ha, no comment "So we put her on the hit list Of a common cunning linguist A master of many tongues" (Deep Purple,Knocking at your back door from 1984 album Perfect Strangers)
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Phill_dvsn wrote: Norwegian Name Meaning - dwells in the clearing in the forest.A cleared way through a wood is called a riding. The old Norse rydja meant to clear land, especially of wood, the modern Danish form of the word being rydde, and a clearance of anything is a rydning. Royd and rod; like röd in Denmark, are elsewhere common terminations, all implying the same thing. The equivalent in Lancashire is "rod." Yorkshire Ormeroyd - Lancashire Ormerod.