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Babeu: from Babouef, community
in the Dept of Oisse and of Compiegne. Derived from the verb,
Baber, to surrender.
Babeau: from Haute-Maine, in
the community of Voillecomte; Babeau a phantom, imagined was
once invoked in Languedon to frighten little children. (Duchet
interprets this word as making a menacing face. Also means gift-giving
festivity. )
[Origine
des familles Canadiennes-francaises; Dionne]
Babel
- ancient baptismal name. Pronounced as Babeau, popular form
of Baylois, name of a beatified patriarch from Antioch. Babet
- spelling variation of Babey, may represent the pronunciation
of the late Middle Ages (final consonant is no longer pronounced),
or a variant of Isabelle. (this name) Variants Babin, Babot
- Des Babelet, -in, -on, and contractions Babet, Bablin, babinet,
babineau (in Poitou). For Babin, Babinet a confusion with babine
(variant of Babouine) and perpetuated, just as for Babeau and
Babot with Bbaut, old precursor and subsequent forms.
[Dictionnaire
Etymologique des nomes de Famille et
Prenomes de France; Dauzat, 1951]
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