Släkthistoria för Pennicott
Pennicott Vad efternamn betyder
apparently from Middle English peni ‘penny’ + cod ‘bag wallet’ (Old English peni(n)g codd) perhaps meaning ‘money bag’ and used either for a wealthy man or in a pejorative sense for a miser. Compare Aluric Penipurs about 1057 in Winton Domesday (Winchester Hants) ‘penny purse’. Alternatively any or all of the following post-medieval bearers may belong under (2). from Pennicott in Shobrooke (Devon) which is recorded as Pinecote in 1262 and Pynnecote in 127 The place-name derives from the Old English personal name Pinna + Old English cot ‘cottage hut shelter’. occasionally a variant of Pincott (1).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
