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in reply to a message by Eilis
Some people seem to see Rochelle as deriving from the same root word hrok:
http://www.geocities.com/edgarbook/names/r/rochelle.html
By the way, one of the German standard reference works about given names, from the "Duden Verlag", gives another etymology for Rocco:
"Italian Rocco, from German Rochus, from Old High German Roho, from the Old High German word 'rohon' 'to roar, to shout' " (as for example in shouting war cries during battle).
Unfortunately that reference work does not list Rochelle to confirm (or contradict) other sources that see the name as having the same origin...
Rene www.AboutNames.ch
http://www.geocities.com/edgarbook/names/r/rochelle.html
By the way, one of the German standard reference works about given names, from the "Duden Verlag", gives another etymology for Rocco:
"Italian Rocco, from German Rochus, from Old High German Roho, from the Old High German word 'rohon' 'to roar, to shout' " (as for example in shouting war cries during battle).
Unfortunately that reference work does not list Rochelle to confirm (or contradict) other sources that see the name as having the same origin...
Rene www.AboutNames.ch
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