English: habitational name from Janaways, the Middle English
name for someone from the seaport of Genoa in Italy. This was taken as
a plural, but is in fact an English spelling of the Old French
adjectival form, Genoveis, Italian Genovese ‘Genoese’
(see Genovese).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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