Given name & surname · also Old Cornish
Coad
“wood”
Coad is a surname from Old Cornish (ultimately Proto-Brythonic).
Meaning & origin
What it means
Coad goes back to Old Cornish cuit, meaning “wood.”
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Where it comes from
Coad comes from Old Cornish, and ultimately from Proto-Brythonic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Cornish cuit (“wood”), from Proto-Brythonic *koɨd.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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