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Again, it's fine to interpret the name for yourself this way if you want to. But in terms of historical etymology, you can't just look in a dictionary (of any language) and say that a name means the same thing as words it resembles, without having evidence that the name was created from those words at the time it was first used.

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Someone could look in an English dictionary and say that Ashton would mean "2,000 pounds of burnt wood", but that's NOT its historical etymology.