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lydiard

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English

Syllables
ly-di-ard
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A habitational surname from Welsh.

Etymology

Habitational surname from the villages of Lydiard Millicent and Lydiard Tregoze, both in the borough of Swindon. The placename was recorded as Lidgerd or Lidegærd in the Cartularium Saxonicum; the second part of this word coul derive from Welsh garth (“cliff; enclosure”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Lydiards (plural) Liddiard (alternative)

Questions

What does lydiard mean?
A habitational surname from Welsh.
Where does lydiard come from?
It is traced to Welsh.

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