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SteveBH commented on the word auberjonois
I, too, first thought the Auberjonois people must originally have been eggplant farmers or maybe inn-dwellers (-ois in French means, "from there" as in Quebecois).
Actor Rene' Auberjonois (the ST:DS9 Changeling/Founder "Odo," from a Cardassian word which fittingly means "unknown specimen") himself has written that he thinks his family name means "armorer" or "armor maker." If that is correct, the armor referred to would not be plate armor, but the chain mail "hauberc" = hauberk. This is chain-mail neck protector (the root means "neck") or even an entire chain-mail shirt, like Frodo's. But often with a "hoodie" part.
The etymology of (H)auber(c)-jonoir then goes "Hauberc" + "joigneor" with the last word meaning "joiner" (OF) as in a wood-joiner (carpenter). Here applied to chain-mail, not wood. Okay, fishy, but it's better than the eggplant theory. There is a French family name Jonoir, which presumably means something like carpenter.
December 24, 2018