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Re: Charlotte or Carlotta - which name came first?
by Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)
11/19/2007, 12:47 PM
in reply to a message by Swiff
There may not be many other common given names that end in -otte in modern French, but there are quite a few French or Norman French surnames derived from given names that end in -ot or -otte. This shows that -ot was a productive suffix in French in medieval times. Some examples of such names from Dauzat's Dictionnaire etymologique des noms de famille et prenoms de France include Jacot, Jacotte, Louisot, Michelot, Mathiot, Pierrot, Mariot, Mariotte, Denisot, and Gerardot.
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- Lumia
11/19/2007, 1:54 PM
Jacot, Louisot, Michelot, Pierrot, Mariot, Denisot and Gerardot are all diminutives, like Charlot.The suffixe French -ot/-otte is the same as -ot/-ota in Occitan and Catalan.
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- Swiff   +1
11/19/2007, 1:26 PM
That would explain the last name of the Swedish Royal family Bernadotte, wouldn't it?
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- Furienna (guest)
12/6/2007, 3:54 PM
Yes, our king's great great great great grandfather, the first king of the Bernadotte dynasty, was a French general named Jean Baptiste Bernadotte.
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