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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn English surname.
* As an Irish surname, from Ó hEachach (“descendant of Eochu”), a popular name derived from Old Irish ech (“horse”). * As an English and Scottish surname, from Early Scots halh (“minor elevation in a marshland”). * Also as an English surname, variant of Hough.
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- Derivation mentionechsga · horse
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