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Plaw Vad efternamn betyder
for someone who lived by a place where sports and games were played from Middle English plaghe plawe pleie ploghe plowe (Old English plega plæga plaga) ‘play sport game merriment ’ and by transference ‘play-place’. The Sussex and Surrey surname is specifically from Plawhatch Hall (formerly in East Grinstead Sussex) recorded as La Plawe in 1281 and Plagh(e) in 1285. Compare Plastow.medieval examples without a preposition may alternatively derive from the word in (i) as an epithet for someone who played games or who had a merry disposition.
Källa: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, 2021
