Lalonde

Lalonde or LaLonde (US spelling) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Origin of the name

It means literally "from a place called La Londe". There are more or less 100 places called La Londe in Normandy, France, including the commune La Londe in the Seine-Maritime department. In Old Norman(-French) it meant "grove, wood", itself from Old Norse lundr (accusative lund) "grove" + French feminine definite article la.

Variant forms include Delalonde, Delalondre.

The French surnames Delalande, Lalande (Gasconic Lalanne) are unrelated to it, but from one of the numerous French place-names called La Lande, lande being a French word that means "moor", itself from Gaulish (Celtic) *landa.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Place-names La Londe in the Norman départements Seine-Maritime, Eure and Calvados (the site does not include Orne and Manche) in DicoTopo (read online)
  2. ↑ Elisabeth Ridel, Les Vikings et les mots : l'apport de l'ancien scandinave à la langue française, éditions Errance, Paris, 2009, p. 241.
  3. ↑ Albert Dauzat (préface de Marie-Thérèse Morlet), Noms et prénoms de France, éditions Larousse 1980, p. 359b.
  4. ↑ CNRTL : Etymology of lande (read online)
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