Example sentences for: baughan

How can you use “baughan” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Hanks and Hodges say that it is an English name of unknown origin but hint that it may be an anglicization of Welsh Baughan (found also as Vaughan ), a diminutive of Baugh , ultimately from bach `little.

  • ' There was no cross reference to Baughan , however, nor a mention of Cornish byhan/vyhan `little.

  • But try that on an ordinary member of the public, the kind of person who will presumably consult this book in a library, and add in for good measure the last line of the Baughan entry which reads: “Cogn.

  • I wonder, though, why the Baughan (and Vaughan ) entries do not mention that bach was an epithet that distinguished a son and father, a kind of Welsh equivalent of junior . I also have my doubts about how ordinary users of this dictionary will cope with its metalanguage.


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