Amyas

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English

Etymology

From Old French Amis, a given name and nickname, from Latin amīcus (“friend”). Later interpreted as a masculine form of Amy.

Proper noun

Amyas

  1. (literary, rare) A male given name from Latin.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 59:
      The morrow next about the wanted howre, / The Dwarfe cald at the doore of Amyas, / To come forthwith unto his Ladies bowre.
    • 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, Macmillan and Co., published 1871, page 17:
      Because there was fellow-feeling of old in merry England, in county and in town; and these are Devon men, and men of Bideford, whose names are Amyas Leigh of Burrough, John Staveley, Michael Heard, and Jonas Marshall of Bideford, and Thomas Braund of Clovelly: and they, the first of all English mariners, have sailed round the world with Francis Drake, and are come hither to give God thanks.
    • 1942, Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs, HarperCollins, published 1994, →ISBN, page 39:
      She was an admirer of Kingsley. That's why she called her son Amyas. His father scoffed at the name - but he gave in.

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