Ponton
Meanings
name
- A surname.
noun
- Archaic form of pontoon.
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Etymology
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.
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