Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname from Old English. · A city in Franklin County, Iowa, United States. · A town in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States.
English habitational surname, from Old English āc (“oak”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”), equivalent to oak + -ley (“lea”). Compare Oakley, which has the same origin.
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- Derivation mentionācang
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