Defaux (surname) (original) (raw)
Defaux is a surname popular in Belgium and northeastern France. Like its cognates/variants De Fauw and Faux, it could derive from fou, fau (Old French for "beech"); be a toponymic surname indicating origin from a place called Faux or Faulx (possibly Faulx-les-Tombes in Wallonia, Belgium; Faux, Court-Saint-Étienne, Belgium; Wavrechain-sous-Faulx in the Nord department; a commune in Pas-de-Calais, or one in the Ardennes) or derive from the adjective "faux" (Middle French: "faulx").
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| dbo:abstract | Defaux is a surname popular in Belgium and northeastern France. Like its cognates/variants De Fauw and Faux, it could derive from fou, fau (Old French for "beech"); be a toponymic surname indicating origin from a place called Faux or Faulx (possibly Faulx-les-Tombes in Wallonia, Belgium; Faux, Court-Saint-Étienne, Belgium; Wavrechain-sous-Faulx in the Nord department; a commune in Pas-de-Calais, or one in the Ardennes) or derive from the adjective "faux" (Middle French: "faulx"). The etymology of the place names in Belgium is ultimately from Latin fagus ("beech") via Old French fou, fau, or from Germanic *falisa, "cliff". (en) |
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| dbp:cognate | De Fauw, Faux, Dufaux, Defau (en) |
| dbp:name | Defaux (en) |
| dbp:origin | Ultimately from Old French fou, fau, "beech" from Latin fagus; or from Germanic falisa, "cliff" (en) |
| dbp:region | dbr:Belgium dbr:France |
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| rdfs:comment | Defaux is a surname popular in Belgium and northeastern France. Like its cognates/variants De Fauw and Faux, it could derive from fou, fau (Old French for "beech"); be a toponymic surname indicating origin from a place called Faux or Faulx (possibly Faulx-les-Tombes in Wallonia, Belgium; Faux, Court-Saint-Étienne, Belgium; Wavrechain-sous-Faulx in the Nord department; a commune in Pas-de-Calais, or one in the Ardennes) or derive from the adjective "faux" (Middle French: "faulx"). (en) |
| rdfs:label | Defaux (surname) (en) |
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