Meaning and Origin
What does the name Eddy mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
- A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.
- A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool."And smiling eddies dimpled on the main." [Dryden.]"Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play." [Addison.]
Note: Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds.
Etymology: Prob. fr. Icel. iða; cf. Icel. pref. ið- back, AS. ed-, OS. idug-, OHG. ita-; Goth. id-
- A miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
- Founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910)
- Flow in a circular current, of liquids
From Middle English eddy, from Old English edēa (< ed- "turning" + ēa "water"), equivalent to ed- + ea.
- A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
- A circular current; a whirlpool.
eddy was also found in the following language(s): Luxembourgish and Welsh