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foss Name Meaning and History
- English: variant spelling of Fosse.
- Danish: from fos, vos ‘fox’; a nickname for a sly or cunning person or a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a fox.
- Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead so named from Old Norse fors ‘waterfall’, examples of which are found throughout Norway.
- Altered spelling of German Voss or the Dutch cognate Vos.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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