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Re: Any information about Guigonne?
After googling quite a while and checking pages like the following:
http://www.geneanet.org/genealogie/fr/guigue.htmlI would say that this a name of Germanic origin, from the name element "wig" meaning "fight, battle" or at least with this as the first element, then with a second element that I was not able to find out.Ludwig is an example for a well-known German name with this "wig" as the second element.
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Okay, thanks!
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Wouldn't |-onne| be a diminutive+feminine suffix (as it is with YVONNE)?

This message was edited 3/27/2015, 7:37 AM

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