Gaylord
Gaylord ( ) or Gaillard ( ) is a male given name and a family name .
Origin and meaning
There are two derivations for the French Gaillard :
- With the meaning "strong, strong" from the Gallic galia "strength, strength" and the ending -ard .
- From the old French gaile "happy, funny", which has a Germanic origin.
The old place name is the Château-Gaillard , which Richard the Lionheart had built in Normandy from 1196 . The name came to England with French Protestants, the first being likely during the reign of Edward VI. (from 1547) settled there. After that the name was anglicized to Gaylord there . Gaylord is therefore particularly associated with the Huguenots . The old French gaile had a counterpart in Middle English with ga (i) le "cheerful, rowdy". In English it later became gay and in French it evolved into gai or gaie .
variants
- Gaillard , Gaillhard , Gaillardet , Galliard , Gallard , Gailhard
- Gaylord, Gayelord, as well as the short and pet forms Gayler , Gaylor , and Gay (which is also a short form of Gaynor )
Notoriety and Second Significance
The basic word gai or gay has changed meaning in English over the years. In addition to the original meanings “full of joy” and “full of happiness” from the 12th century and “shiny and striking” from the 13th century, the general connotation of sexuality and immorality emerged from 1637 onwards. This is similar to German. For example, a gay house designated in the 1890s is a brothel , a brothel . The meaning "carefree, carefree" is also included. Gaillard and Gaylord also had the connotation " dandy ".
In this area there are indications of a - not always exclusive, but also intended - meaning in the direction of “ homosexual ” from 1880 and intensified from 1920, primarily in the USA. Here it also had a euphemistic function due to its double meaning . The Oxford English Dictionary gives the year 1951 as the first finding for a clear meaning of "homosexual". In 1963, this meaning was well known that Albert Ellis used it in his book The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Man-Hunting . It first appeared as a noun in 1971. Gaylord was among the 600 to 700 most popular first names in the United States from 1900 to 1940. This then fell rapidly, so that in 1960 he was no longer among the 1000 most popular first names.
The old meanings of gay lingered on all along. In 1949 the vocal group The Gay Lords was founded, which was later renamed The Gaylords and still performs today as a vocal comedy duo with a different line-up. The group The Gaylords of Dominica existed from 1966 to 1974 .
The compound gaylord (AE [ ˈgeɪˌlɔ (ə) rd ]; BE [ ˈgeɪlɔːd ]) or gay lord from gay (“gay”) and lord (“prince”) in the meaning of “gay prince” or “gay prince” is probably wordplay based on the name, first documented in writing in 1976 and mainly a British jargon expression . It is similar to the gay boy for a gay man , which was recorded in 1945 . In the 1980s, Gaylord and variations such as Lord of the Gays ("Lord / Duke of Gays") or Duke of Queer dom ("Duke of the Strange Kingdom") became popular as an insult in US schoolyards. Behind this is the idea that gays have built a complex hierarchy and the person in question was portrayed as their leader. It is thus also an increase in the derogatory use of gay and is also used by people who are seen as particularly effeminate , and in whom all the prejudices attributed are to be found particularly strong. A prank is based on this meaning. You ask the other person if they saw the movie "Gaylords Say No" yesterday. Since it is a fictional film title, you can only answer "no" and you are a gaylord. A “yes” would also make you seem suspect.
The ambiguous name also gained fame in German-speaking countries from December 2000 through the film comedy Meine Braut, Ihr Vater und I and its two sequels.
The swear word Gaylord is also used in the German-speaking area and is one of the common swear words from this topic. It can also be translated as Homo prince , although in spite of the absolutely correct gender-neutral translation of "Gay-" as "Homo-" it is meant almost exclusively male.
Name bearer
First name
- Gaylord Griswold (1767–1809), American lawyer and politician
- Gaylord Nelson (1916–2005), American Senator
- Gaylord Perry (born 1938), American baseball player
- Gaylord Silly (* 1986), French-Seychellois long-distance runner
- Henry Gaylord Wilshire (1861–1927), American landowner, publisher, and socialist
family name
- Anna Gaylor (born 1932), French actress
- Anne Nicole Gaylor († 2015), American activist
- Hal Gaylor (1929-2015), Canadian jazz musician
- Jack Gaylord (1896–1984), American film technician and special effects artist
- James M. Gaylord (1811–1874), American politician
- Mitch Gaylord , American gymnast and Olympic champion
fiction
- Gaylord Focker, character from the film My Bride, Her Father and I and its sequels
- Gaylord Pentecost, character in the Gaylord novels by Eric Malpass
- Gaylord Oakes, character from the movie Bad Company - The world is in good hands
literature
- William H. Gaillard: The History and Pedigree of the House of Gaillard Or Gaylord in France England and the United States. Cincinnati 1872.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Patrick Hanks: Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-19-508137-4 ( excerpt from ancestry.com Gaillard , Gale , Gail )
- ^ The Descents of William Gaylord - The Gaylord Family ( Memento of May 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Version: December 17, 2000.
- ↑ Gaillard , thinkbabynames.com
- ↑ Gaillhard , thinkbabynames.com
- ↑ Gaillardet , thinkbabynames.com
- ↑ Galliard , thinkbabynames.com
- ↑ Gallard , thinkbabynames.com
- ↑ a b Gaylord , thinkbabynames.com
- ↑ Gayelord , thinkbabynames.com
- ↑ Gayler , thinkbabynames.com
- ↑ Gaylor , thinkbabynames.com
- ↑ Gay , thinkbabynames.com
- ↑ a b c gay , Online Etymology Dictionary, accessed June 7, 2009.
- ^ Adam Sherwin: Gay means rubbish, says BBC , June 6, 2007.
- ↑ Patrick Hanks, Flavia Hodges: Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-19-280050-7 .
- ↑ JCMarion: Spinning A Web: The Gaylords , 2004.
- ↑ www.thegaylords.com
- ↑ Jocelyne Guilbault: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Volume 2. Routledge, 1999, ISBN 0-8153-1865-0 , "Dominica" pp. 840-844.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary Online, "gaylord, n.", Draft Entry June 2008; First mention of W. Trevor: Children of Dynmouth , vii, p. 141, Bodley Head, 1976.
- ↑ Gaylord Ben Ransom alias "mcd": Gaylord , March 14, 2003, everything2.com
- ↑ Gaylord , urbandictionary.com: 1. “The Ultimate insult…”, 9. “The ultimate insult, cannot be stopped by anything.”, 4. “A lord of gayness. One who is extremely gay ", 7." A real fagot ", 8." A super gay person ", etc. (accessed: June 7, 2009)
- ↑ Gaylords Say No , urbandictionary.com, accessed June 7, 2009.
- ↑ Gaylord , mundmische.de, accessed June 7, 2009.
- ↑ If you don't defend yourself, live wrong - common swear words ( Memento from August 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), gay-tip.com, accessed: June 7, 2009.
- ↑ gaylord , dict.cc, "gaylord [coll.] [Hum.] / Homofürst {m} [coll.] [Hum.]", Accessed: June 7, 2009.
- ↑ Homofürst , mundmische.de , accessed: June 7, 2009.
- ↑ Homofürst , sprachnudel.de, It's all about penis, eggs, ass and brother, accessed: June 7, 2007.