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From: "MICHAEL. CHAPPELL" <>
Subject: [OLDWORDS] mos/s'en/dieu
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 10:25:31 +0100


Hello all,

Would anyone care to comment please on a thought that the Christian name
Mossendieu maybe a compound of latin & french as; mos/s'en/dieu, meaning:

By will, behold [one] from God.
or
By pleasure, behold [one] from God.

I have been puzzling over this for some weeks and many people have kindly
posted a variety of suggestions.
However knowing, one might say, how a earlier members of my family were
likely to have thought, finally gave me the above idea!

Thanks in advance.

Yours,

Mikey.

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