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- DUNN
- Gaelic, Dun, a heap, hill, mount; a fortress, a castle, fastness, a tower. Dunn, Saxon, brown, of a dark color, swarthy.
- DUNNING
- The brown offspring, from the Saxon Dunn, brown, and the termination ing, which, among the Saxons, signified ofispring, as White-ing, the fair oflfepring, Cuth-ing, the son of Cuth. Dunning has retained its original orthography since the days of the Saxons.
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Source : An etymological dictionary of family and Christian names - By William Arthur - 1857.
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