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Gai has a large Piedmontese stock, especially in Turin, but also in Asti, San Damiano d'Asti, Canelli, Tigliole and Vigliano d'Asti in the Asti area and Collegno, Vinovo, Castellamonte and Moncalieri in Turin, a Tuscan in Pistoia, with strains also in Livorno, Florence and Sansepolcro in the Arezzo area, and one in Lazio, in the Viterbo area in Bassano Romano and Civita Castellana, and in Rome, Gaj, very rare, is specific to Turin and Asti, Gay, also primarily from Turin, also in Alessandria and Pinerolo and Roure in Turin, for these surnames various hypotheses can be formulated, the first is that they may derive from the Latin praenomen Gaius, the same of Julius Caesar, but a Provençal origin cannot be excluded and then derive from nicknames originated from a particular gaiety of the progenitor, a last hypothesis, less probable, connects them to a nickname originated from the Gothic term gahil- (help).
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