Etymology

Talmadge

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Today it means: A surname from Old French. Full definition →

Old French talemasche
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromtalemasche“knapsack”
  2. English todayTalmadge

Metonymic occupational surname for an itinerant merchant, from Old French talemasche (“knapsack”). Compare Tollemache.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchtalemasche all →

Tollemache

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.