Gabe

//ɡeɪb// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A diminutive of the male given name Gabriel.
  2. 2
    A surname.

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"Gabe Black Moon, who co-teaches Lakota with Moore, remembered his time at one such school."

Etymology

Etymology 1

See Gabriel.

Etymology 2

Various origins: * Borrowed from German Gabe, from a short form of several personal names beginning with the Proto-Germanic element *gabį̄ (“wealth, riches”). * Borrowed from French Gabe, perhaps a nickname from Old French gabe (“joke”), from the verb gaber (“to tell jokes”). * English surname, from a pet form of the personal name Gabriel, or alternatively a nickname from Middle English gabbe (“falsehood, deceit, lie”).

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