The carnell Surname
carnell Name Meaning and History
- English: apparently a metonymic occupational name for a crossbowman who specialized in fighting from the battlements of castles, from Anglo-Norman French carnel ‘battlement’, ‘embrasure’ (a metathesized form of crenel, Late Latin crenellus, a diminutive of crena ‘notch’).
- English: reduced form of Carbonell or Cardinal.
- Swedish: the second element -ell is a common suffix of Swedish surnames, taken from the Latin adjectival ending -elius. The first element is unexplained.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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 Darlene Burns
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| CARNELL, Francis Henry |
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| Carnell in Walpole, Norfolk, UK |
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| Carnell - Dorset/Devon |
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| Carnell Family Tree |
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| Carnells of Tennessee |
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