Etymology

Kingdon

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

Old English cyning
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromcyning“king”
  2. English todayKingdon

Habitational surname, from Old English cyning (“king”) + dūn (“hill”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishcyning all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.