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SOURCE: Location & Other
OTHER FORMS: Fallows
CONTRIBUTOR: LMS on 6/10/2016
Meaning & History
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a patch of fallow land, Middle English falwe (Old English f(e)alg). This word was used to denote both land left uncultivated for a time to recover its fertility and land recently brought into cultivation.
The name is also borne by Ashkenazic Jews, as an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.