Boswell
[ˈbɒzwɛl]Meaning
Scottish surname from the Norman place name Beuzeville, from Old Norse Bosi
Background Story
Boswell is a Scottish surname of Norman origin, taken from the place name Beuzeville, formed from Beuze and -ville, "Bosi's farm". The first element is the Old Norse name Bosi, from Proto-Germanic *bausuz. A user-submitted entry records it as a masculine given name in an ecclesiastical, anglicized context.
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