Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname.
Various origins: * A nickname for a shy or short-sighted person, from Old English wand (“mole”). * Borrowed from German Wand, a metonymic occupational surname for a weaver or cloth cutter, from Middle High German gewant (“cloth, garment”) (representing modern Gewand (“garment”)). * Borrowed from Dutch Wand, a metonymic occupational surname for a glove maker, from Middle Dutch want (“glove”).
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