The story
- Middle English · derived fromjoye
- Scots · derived fromauld“old”
- English todayAlgeo
* As a Scottish surname, a nickname originally spelled Al(d)jo, from an expression composed of Scots auld (“old”) + jo (“joy”) (from Middle English joye). * As an Italian/Venetan surname, from a variant of the male given name Alceo.
Words from the same roots
Scotsauld all →
auld
Middle Englishjoye all →
joyjo
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.