English Explanatory Dictionary

Lydiard

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A habitational surname from Welsh.

Word forms

Lydiard Lydiards Liddiard

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”).

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