English: metonymic occupational name for a huntsman, or rather
a nickname for an exceptionally skilled huntsman, from Middle English
chase ‘hunt’ (Old French chasse, from chasser ‘to
hunt’, Latin captare).Southern French: topographic name
for someone who lived in or by a house, probably the occupier of the
most distinguished house in the village, from a southern derivative of
Latin casa ‘hut’, ‘cottage’, ‘cabin’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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