Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname. · A northern suburb of Gosport, Gosport borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6001). · A small village in Ellesmere Rural parish, north Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3835).
Possibly from Middle English elson, alternative spelling of elsen, elsyn, alsene (“an awl or some other pointed instrument or tool”), either from Middle Dutch elsene, alsene, from Old Dutch *elisna, *alasna, from Proto-West Germanic *alisnu, *alasnu, from Proto-Germanic *alasnō, or from an unrecorded Old English form.
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