Duceman
Duceman is an Anglo-Saxon masculine name composed of duce (duck) and man (man).
Variants:
Duceman [Robert Ferguson 1883 Surnames as a Science, page 98].
Ducemann [Kenneth Cameron 1959 English Place-Name Society 28: 310].
Prototheme:
Duck = duce (?dúce) [Sir James Murray 1897 A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 1st edition, 3: 700].
Deuterotheme:
Man or mon = Man [William Smith 1873 A Complete Etymology of the English Language, page 132].
Evidence:
The place-name Ducemannestun, mentioned in 1002 [Benjamin Thorpe 1865 Diplomatarium Anglicum Ævi Saxonici, page 546], “Looks like ‘Duceman’s tūn’” [
