Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗name
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn English surname. · A town in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. · A hamlet in Egloshayle parish, on the eastern outskirts of Wadebridge, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0073).
Multiple theories and origins. * From a short form of the Middle English given name Baldwin. * A toponymic surname for a person that lives near a knoll or rounded hill (i.e. somewhere shaped like a ball). * From the Old Norse given name Balle. * A habitational surname for a person from Ball, Cornwall, from Cornish Pelen.
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- Derivation mentionPelenkw
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