====== 'Huguenot' etymology ======

The 16th century Huguenots were French Protestants (puritans) who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism.

The origin of the word itself is unknown.

According to Roche '//The Days of the Upright, A History of the Huguenots'// (1965) the word is :

>[...] a combination of a Dutch and a German word. In the Dutch-speaking North of France, Bible students who gathered in each other's houses to study secretly were called //Huis Genooten// ("housemates") while on the Swiss and German borders they were termed //Eid Genossen//, or "oath fellows", that is, persons bound to each other by an oath. Gallicised into "Huguenot", often used deprecatingly, the word became, during two and a half centuries of terror and triumph, a badge of enduring honour and courage."

However, according to [[https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=huguenot|Etymology Online]] there have been at least seven different serious proposals as to the word's origin. Pointing out that //Brachet's French etymology dictionary// says, //"No word has had more said and written about it"//