Hervé

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FieldValue
nameHervé
imageGuern (56) Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Quelven Statue 08.JPG
image_size200
captionSaint Hervé
variantHarvey
languageFrench
language2English
name dayJune 17
pronunciation
genderMale
meaningbright iron
languageoriginBreton
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| name = Hervé | image=Guern (56) Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Quelven Statue 08.JPG | image_size=200 | caption=Saint Hervé | variant = Harvey | language= French | language2= English | name day=June 17 | pronunciation= | gender = Male | meaning = bright iron | languageorigin = Breton | related names = | footnotes = Hervé is a French masculine given name of Breton origin, from the name of the 6th-century Breton Saint Hervé. The common latinization of the name is Herveus (also Haerveus), an early (8th-century) latinization was Charivius. Anglicized forms are Harvey and Hervey. Its Old Breton form was Huiarnviu (cf. Old Welsh Haarnbiu ), composed of the elements hoiarn ("iron", modern Breton houarn, cf. Welsh haearn) and viu ("bright", "blazing", modern Breton bev). Its common Celtic form would have been *isarno-biuos or *-ue(s)uos. Recorded Middle Breton forms of the name include Ehuarn, Ehouarn, Houarn. The name of the 6th-century saint is recorded in numerous variants, including forms such as: Houarniault, Houarneau; as the name of a legendary Breton bard, the name occurs in variants such as Hyvarnion, Huaruoé, Hoarvian.

People with the given name

Medieval

Modern

Pseudonym

  • Hervé (composer) (1825–1892), stage name of French operetta composer, singer, librettist and conductor, born Florimond Ronger
  • Hervé (DJ), DJ and producer in the UK

As a surname

;Baron Hervey

;modern French surname

;pseudonym

  • Lucien Hervé, French-Hungarian photographer, born László Elkán

References

References

  1. [[Xavier Delamarre]], ''Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise'', éditions errance 2003. p. 192.
  2. [[Kenneth H. Jackson]], ''A Historical Phonology Of Breton'', Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1967 p. 230.
  3. [[Léon Fleuriot]], ''Dictionary of Old Breton - Dictionnaire du vieux breton, Historical and Comparative'', Toronto 1985. p. 213.
  4. ''Revue de Bretagne de Vendée & d'Anjou'' vols. 45-46, O. de Gourcuff (1911), [https://books.google.com/books?id=uJAVAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA180 p. 180].
  5. ''Bulletin Archéologique de l'Association Bretonne '' t. 4 (1884), [https://books.google.com/books?id=JGwDAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA206 p. 206].

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