Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname.
* As a south German surname, from obsolete Middle High German genge (“vigorous”), from Old High German gengi (“passable”), from Proto-West Germanic *gangī (“passable”). * As a Chinese surname, Mandarin form of 耿 (gěng).
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