Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn English surname transferred from the nickname. · A surname from Irish. · A male given name transferred from the surname. · A female given name transferred from the surname.
A surname derived from either Old English blæc (“black”) or from Old English blāc (“pale, fair, shining, white”), or as an anglicisation of Irish Ó Bláthmaic.
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- Derivation mentionblæcang
- Derivation mentionblācang
- Derivation mentionÓ Bláthmaicga
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