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sword Name Meaning and History
- Scottish and English: metonymic occupational name for a swordsman or armorer, from Middle English swerd, sword ‘sword’.
- Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Suaird, Ó Suairt ‘descendant of Suart’, a personal name derived from Old Norse Sigvarðr ‘victory keeper’, a cognate of Old English Sigeweard. Compare Seward 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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