Judd
English
Etymology
From a Middle English short form of the given name Jordan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d͡ʒʌd/
- Rhymes: -ʌd
Proper noun
Judd
- A surname.
- A male given name, today often transferred back from the surname.
- 1996 Joyce Carol Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys, Harper Perennial (2007), →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 4:
- "Judd" was a name associated with a certain measure of sternness, sobriety, though in fact we Mulvaney children were rarely scolded and even more rarely punished: "Judson Andrew" which is my baptismal name was a name of such dignity and aspiration I never came to feel it could be mine, only something borrowed like a Hallowe'en mask.
- 1996 Joyce Carol Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys, Harper Perennial (2007), →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 4:
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Middle High German jude, from Old High German judo, from Latin iūdaeus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jud/
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