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Please use the search function to check if a name in question has been defined or discussed already. A quick search on "Arlis" points you to: http://www.behindthename.com/bb/arcview.php?id=371479&board=gen
Cleveland Kent Evans writes;
"This is originally an English surname, spelled Arliss or Arles. According to Reaney & Wilson's A Dictionary of English Surnames, it was originally an Old English nickname meaning "earless"."
"We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap" -- Kurt Vonnegut
Cleveland Kent Evans writes;
"This is originally an English surname, spelled Arliss or Arles. According to Reaney & Wilson's A Dictionary of English Surnames, it was originally an Old English nickname meaning "earless"."
"We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap" -- Kurt Vonnegut
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Arliss means `a loss of ears` in Old English, not `earless`
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For the life of me, I cannot see what is the difference between "a loss of ears" and "earless". If you lose your ears, aren't you then earless? "Earless" is the way it is put in Reaney & Wilson's A Dictionary of English Surnames. That generally is considered one of the most accurate books on the subject of English surnames, if what I have read is true.
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