Ponton
name, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Archaic form of pontoon. alt-of, archaic
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Etymology
Etymology 1
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 2
French
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