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Ponton¹

Where it comes from

Three main origins:

* English and Scottish habitational surname, from the villages of Great and Little Ponton, named probably with an obscure Old English word pamp (“hill”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

* Borrowed from French Ponton.

* Borrowed from Spanish Pontón.

proper noun Pontons

  1. A surname.

ponton²

Where it comes from

French

noun pontons

  1. archaic Archaic form of pontoon

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MLA

"ponton." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ponton. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

ponton. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ponton

Chicago

"ponton." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ponton.

BibTeX
@misc{ponton_2026,
  title = {ponton},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ponton},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}