ponton · noun1
French
Ponton · proper noun2
- Spanish · borrowed fromPontón
- French · borrowed fromPonton
- English todayPonton
Three main origins: * English and Scottish habitational surname, from the villages of Great and Little Ponton, named probably with an obscure Old English word pamp (“hill”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). * Borrowed from French Ponton. * Borrowed from Spanish Pontón.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.