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Help[Facts] Re: Bascot
in reply to a message by lac
Bascot comes from basc, "Basque", and the ending -ot (Occitan, Catalan and French), which is not diminutive but augmentative and in some cases despective; it is a hypochoristical suffixe, but an augmentative one and not diminutive, as could be -ic.
In origin, Bascot was a surname for someone from the Basque country.
Lumia
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In origin, Bascot was a surname for someone from the Basque country.
Lumia
http://onomastica.mailcatala.com
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Thanks. I wondered if Basc- might refer to Basque but dismissed the thought because I didn't know people in the Middle Ages would be named for that group.
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