Query: Etymology of "Huguenots"

[Barnhart]

>From The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology (clipped and adapted [no
diacritical marks]):

borrowed from Middle French _huguenot_, the name used in the early 1520's
for the Genevan particsans who opposed the Duke of Savoy.  ...earlier
_eiguenot_[,] was probably an alteration of Swiss German _Eidgenoss_
confederate ... from Middle High German _eitgenoze_ (_eit_ oath + _genoze_
comrande, from Old High German _ginozo_, related to _niozan_ use, enjoy).
The Middle French _Huguenot_ was re-formed from _eiguenot_ probably by
association with the name _Hugues_ Besancon, leader of the Genevan
partisans.

Regards,
David K. Barnhart


American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> writes:
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>Poster:       Gerald Cohen <gcohen at UMR.EDU>
>Subject:      Query: Etymology of "Huguenots"
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>Would anyone know the latest scholarly thinking on the etymology of
>the term "Huguenots" (French Protestants, followers of John Calvin)?
>Is it really from German Eidgenossen "sworn companions or
>confederates"). Or is it, as some sources say, of unknown origin?
>
>Gerald Cohen
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