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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname from Old English. · A small town in the Shire of Buloke, Victoria, Australia. · An unincorporated community in Brasstown Township, Clay County, North Carolina, United States.
Habitational surname from a minor place in Devon recorded as Wagefen in the Domesday Book, probably from Old English wagian (“to sway, shake, quiver”) + fen (“bog, marsh”).
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- Derivation mentionwagianang
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