ekename

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  1. An added name; an epithet; a nickname. See nickname. We have thousands of instances … of such eke-names or epithet-names being adopted by the person concerned. Archæologia, XLIII. 110 (1871).

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  1. Middle English ekename, ekname (= Icelandic auknafn = Swedish öknamn = Danish ögenavn), an added name, from eke, an addition, increase, eken, add, + name, name: see eke and name. Hence, by misdividing an ekename as a nekename, the form nickname, q. v.
 

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