Meaning
Etymologists interpret the prefix goat in surnames such as goat foot, goat leg, goat neck etc. in the form of dryly, thin etc. Probably the first person with this name had thin, possibly also whitish legs, so that it was used first as a nickname and as a surname later by his descendants.
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