Etymology

Pardew

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Middle English Pardey ← Old French par
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The story

  1. Old French · derived frompar“by”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromPardey
  3. English todayPardew

From Middle English Pardey, Pardeu, from Old French par (“by”) + Deu (“God”), an oath name, perhaps shortened from de par Dieu (“in God's name”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.