Etymology

Dunbabin

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Today it means: A surname from Old English. Full definition →

Old English dunn
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromdunn“black, dark coloured”
  2. English todayDunbabin

From Old English dunn (“black, dark coloured”) + Middle English *Babin or *Bobin, a hypocoristic form of Robin.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishdunn all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.