name – English noun declension

English noun forms of name

Noun: name
Singularname
Pluralnames

Sample Sentences

  • I've never liked the name my parents gave me so I changed it at the age of twenty.
  • What's your name?
  • Puddintane. Ask me again and I'll tell you the same.
  • That which we call a rose
  • By any other name would smell as sweet. [c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:]
  • […] and whatsoeuer Adam called euery liuing creature, that was the name thereof. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 2:19:]
  • So good a man as this must surely have a name. [1904, L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz:]
  • Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work. [2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:]
  • Good name in man and woman, dear my lord
  • Is the immediate jewel of their souls. [c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:]
  • The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot. [1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:]
  • And David won a name for himself. [1952, Old Testament, Revised Standard Version, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2 Samuel 8:13]
  • Stop calling me names!
  • They list with women each degenerate name. [1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
  • p. 2002, second edition of, 2002, Graham Richards, Putting Psychology in its Place, →ISBN, page 287 http://books.google.com/books?id=7bxvJIs5_wsC&pg=PA287&dq=names
  • Later British psychologists interested in this topic include such major names as Cyril Burt, William McDougall, […] .
  • Would it be able to fight the competition from ITC Agro Tech and Liptons who were ready and able to commit large resources? With such big names as competitors, would this business be viable for Marico? [2008 edition of, 1998, S. B. Budhiraja and M. B. Athreya, Cases in Strategic Management page 79 http://books.google.com/books?id=-IaKYHY0sogC&pg=PA79&dq=names]
  • International non-governmental organisations (INGOs), including such household names as Amnesty International, Greenpeace and […] . [2009 third edition of, 1998, Martin Mowforth and Ian Munt, Tourism and Sustainability, page 29 http://books.google.com/books?id=bM6MPBIFwkQC&pg=PA29&dq=names]
  • The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities. [1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:]
  • Halt in the name of the law!
  • We may be quite sure, therefore, that in some shape, if we, the people of England, tolerate the bloody and sanguinary crimes which are committed in our name, if they are so committed, and we do not remonstrate and condemn, we shall have no acquittal at that tribunal by which the actions, not of individuals only, but of nations and peoples, are finally judged. [1881, George Barnett Smith, chapter XVI, in The Life and Speeches of the Right Hon. John Bright, M.P., volume II, London: Hodder and Stroughton, page 541:]

Etymology

1. PIE word
2. *h₁nómn̥
3. Etymology tree
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥
5. Proto-Germanic *namô
6. Proto-West Germanic *namō
7. Old English nama
8. Middle English name
9. English name
10. From Middle English name, nome, from Old English nama, noma, from Proto-West Germanic *namō, from Proto-Germanic *namô (“name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).
11. Cognates
12. Germanic Cognates: Yola naame, name, naume (“name”), North Frisian Naam, neem, noome, nööm (“name”), Saterland Frisian Nome, Noome (“name”), West Frisian namme (“name”), Alemannic German Naame, namä, noame, nomu, nàmund (“name”), Cimbrian naamo, name, nåm (“name”), Dutch naam, name (“name”), German Nahme, Name (“name”), German Low German Naam (“name”), Luxembourgish Numm (“name”), Mòcheno nu'm (“name”), Vilamovian noma (“name”), Yiddish נאָמען (nomen, “name”), Danish, Faroese and Norwegian Bokmål navn (“name”), Icelandic nafn (“name”), Norwegian Nynorsk nabn, namn (“name”), Swedish namn (“name”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌼𐍉 (namō, “name”).
13. Indo-European Cognates: Latin nōmen (“name”) (whence Spanish nombre (“name”)), Russian имя (imja, “name”), Ashkun nām (“name”), Kamkata-viri nom, num (“name”), Prasuni nom, nëmë (“name”), Waigali nām (“name”), Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man, “name”). Possible cognates outside of Indo-European include Finnish nimi (“name”) and Hungarian név (“name”). Doublet of nomen and noun. See: Middle English Nouns 'name', Old English Nouns 'nama', Dutch Nouns 'naam', German Nouns 'Nahme', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'navn', Icelandic Nouns 'nafn', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'nabn', Swedish Nouns 'namn', Gothic Nouns '𐌽𐌰𐌼𐍉', Latin Nouns 'nōmen', Spanish Nouns 'nombre', Russian Nouns 'имя', Finnish Nouns 'nimi', Hungarian Nouns 'név'.

Verbs referencing "name"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns namn, Dutch Nouns naam, Latin Nouns nomen, English Nouns onomastics, French Nouns nom, German Nouns Name, Russian Nouns имя, Ancient Greek Nouns ὄνομα.