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Subject: Re: Cynebil
Author: Cleveland Kent Evans   (Authenticated as clevelandkentevans)
Date: March 18, 2008 at 2:10:41 PM
Reply to: Cynebil by lac
From looking at various entries in the surname dictionaries I own, it seems there were many Old English names with the first syllable Cyne, which meant "royal". "Bil", meanwhile, meant "sword" in Old English. So it's possible that Cynebil is a name which puts those two words together.

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