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Dowthwaite.

A surname from Old Norse.

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  1. A surname from Old Norse.

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Habitational surname from a lost place in Yorkshire, from the Old Norse personal name Ufi + þveit (“clearing, glade”); the initial d- may come from Old French de (“of”), an element which later became fused into the surname. Compare Outhwaite.

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