English: habitational name from a place in Somerset named Chew
Magna, which is named for the river on which it stands, a Celtic name,
perhaps cognate with Welsh cyw ‘young animal or bird’,
‘chicken’.English: habitational name from places called Chew, in
West Yorkshire and in the parish of Billington, Lancashire, named with
Old English ceo ‘fish gill’, used in the transferred sense
of a ravine, in a similar way to Old Norse gil.English:
derogatory nickname from Middle English chowe ‘chough’, Old
English ceo, a bird closely related to the crow and the
jackdaw, notorious for its chattering and thieving.Korean: variant of Chu.Chinese :
variant of Zhao.
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