Etymology

Chastain

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Today it means: A surname from French. Full definition →

French Chastain ← Old French chastaigne
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromchastaigne“chestnut”
  2. French · borrowed fromChastain
  3. English todayChastain

Borrowed from French Chastain, derived from the Old French chastaigne (“chestnut”).

Words from the same roots

FrenchChastain all →

Chasteen

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.