The story
- Old English · inherited fromelm
- English todayAmherst
From either Old English elm or Old Norse almr (“elm”) + Old English hyrst (“wood”). The town in Nova Scotia is named after Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717–1797).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishelm all →
elmElmbridge
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.