Etymology

Fossey

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

Old English fōt
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromfōt“foot”
  2. English todayFossey

Habitational surname, typical of Bedfordshire, from Old English fōt (“foot”) + īeġ (“island”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishfōt all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.