Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname.
Borrowed from German Ernst, a medieval royal name in Germany, from Old High German ernust (“vigor, strife”), from Proto-Germanic *ernustuz. Doublet of earnest.
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