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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname. · A former community in Roane County, Tennessee, United States, now in the city of Oak Ridge. · An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States.
English surname, probably from the noun wheat. Another sense meaning "bold, active, brave" is derived from Old English hwettan (“to encourage, embolden, sharpen”).
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- Derivation mentionhwettanang · to encourage, embolden, sharpen
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