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prophet Name Meaning and History
Scottish, English, French, and German: nickname from Middle English
and Old French prophete, Middle High German prophet
‘prophet’, ‘seer’, ultimately from Greek prophetes
‘predictor’, from pro ‘before’ + a derivative of
phemi ‘to speak’. As an American family
name, this name has absorbed some cases of Greek Profitis and
Profitidis.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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