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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname · A surname from Irish. · Robert Boyle, Irish natural philosopher. · A town in County Roscommon, Ireland.
* As an Irish surname, Anglicised from Irish Ó Baoithghill, possibly a compound of baoth (“vain, foolish”) and geall (“pledge”). * As a Scottish surname of Norman origin, from Biéville in Normandy, which could be from the Germanic personal name Boia + the common placename suffix -ville.
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