Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗name
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname from Old English.
Topographic surname for someone who lived near a ditch or trench, from Old English dælf (“delf, ditch”).
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- Derivation mentiondælfang
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