Etymology

Auckland

Auc·kland
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Today it means: A city in the Auckland Region, New Zealand, on the North Island; the largest conurbation in the country. Full definition →

Old Norse alka ← Middle English ak ← Cumbric [Term?]
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The story

  1. Proto-Brythonic · derived from*clọ:tā
  2. Proto-Brythonic · derived from*alo-“rock”
  3. Cumbric · derived from[Term?]
  4. Middle English · derived fromak“oak”
  5. Old Norse · derived fromalka“auk”
  6. English todayAuckland

After William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, patron of the founder of the city, after Bishop Auckland, formerly North Auckland in the UK, the site of Auckland Castle, from Ackland, possibly from Old Norse alka (“auk”) or from Middle English ak (“oak”) + land; similar, if not the same, to Oakland. In view of an earlier form, Alclit, this may represent an adaptation of a Cumbric [Term?] form, equivalent to Proto-Brythonic *alo- (“rock”) + Proto-Brythonic *clọ:tā, a river name.

Words from the same roots

Old Norsealka all →

auk

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.