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Subject: [RHEA-L] Meaning of Ray/Rey/Wray
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 13:32:50 EDT

Ray/Rey/Wray : English Nickname/Place Name...Ray is polygenetic in that
it has several sources. One version is an English nickname from Old
French rey or roy meaning king, to designate someone who had regal airs
(not necessarily regal heirs!). It was also from the Middle English word
ray which meant female deer (Ray -- a deer, a female deer...) and was
given as a nickname to one who was timid. It also derived from the
places Rye and Wray -- for people who were from there.

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