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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname. · An unincorporated community in Jay County, Indiana, United States. · Alternative spelling of Kit (the diminutive of Christopher)
* As an English surname, from Kit, a pet form of Christopher; also from kit (“vessel of hooped staves”). * As a German surname, from kit (“sprout, offshoot”), from Middle High German kīde, from Old High German *chīdi, from Proto-Germanic *kīþą (“sprout, seedling”). Compare Alemannic German chiide.
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