Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname. · An unincorporated community in Menifee County, Kentucky, United States.
Various origins: * Reduced form of McMeans, a surname of Irish origin. * Habitational surname from the villages of East and West Meon, in Hampshire. * A nickname from Middle English mene (“inferior in rank”), which is from Old English ġemǣne (“common, general”), or Middle English mene (“moderate in behaviour”), which is from Old French mëen, mean.
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