sirname

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Definition of sirname

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

(alt-of, archaic)Archaic spelling of surname.

“Fair Helen's sirname, therefore, depends upon the period at which she lived, which it is now impossible to ascertain.”
“These names were not always used; commonly two, and sometimes only the sirname.”
“They were in two trunks (made exactly fit for them) that had the first letters of my christian and sirname decyphered upon them with nails; and on the first page of every book was my ordinary motto and name written at length in my own hand.”

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noun

(alt-of, archaic)Archaic spelling of surname.

“Fair Helen's sirname, therefore, depends upon the period at which she lived, which it is now impossible to ascertain.”
“These names were not always used; commonly two, and sometimes only the sirname.”
“They were in two trunks (made exactly fit for them) that had the first letters of my christian and sirname decyphered upon them with nails; and on the first page of every book was my ordinary motto and name written at length in my own hand.”

verb

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Possibly influenced by erroneous analysis as sire-name (per Brewer's 1877 Errors of Speech and of Spelling).

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