German: from a Germanic
personal name, Dallomirus, composed the an element cognate with
Old English deal ‘proud’, ‘famous’.
Catalan:
topographic name for someome living beside the sea or having some
other association with the sea, from the fused preposition and article
del ‘of the’ + mar ‘sea’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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