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begbie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.10 in modern English

Syllables
beg-bie
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from Old Norse.

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in East Lothian, Scotland, from the Old Norse personal name Baggi + býr (“farmstead”); compare Bagby, which shares the same etymology.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Begbies (plural)

Questions

What does begbie mean?
A surname from Old Norse.
Where does begbie come from?
It is traced to Old Norse.

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