English Explanatory Dictionary

Flagg

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A village in Derbyshire, England.
  2. A surname.

Word forms

Flagg Flaggs

Etymology

Both the surname and village are from Old English flag (“slab”), itself borrowed from Old Norse flaga, from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”).

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