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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn English and Irish surname originating as a patronymic. · A female given name from the Celtic languages, associated by folk etymology with joy and rejoice. · An unincorporated community in Clallam County, Washington, United States, named after founder Joseph M. Joyce.
Medieval (Middle English) given name from Old French Josse, name of a seventh century saint Latinized as Iodocus, from Breton Iodoc, diminutive of iudh (“lord”), from Proto-Celtic *yowdos.
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