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- French · derived from[Term?]
- Dutch · derived fromabberdaan
- English todayhaberdine
From Dutch abberdaan, labberdaan, or a French [Term?] form. Compare Old French habordeau, from the name of a Basque district, and French Labourd, adjective Labourdin. The letter l was misunderstood as the French article l'.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.