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Aloisius 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more

OED says it was remodeled with the diminutive:

> Alteration of pumpion, variant of pompion n., with remodelling of the ending after words in ‑kin suffix.

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