Etymology

Berwick-upon-Tweed

Today it means: A town and civil parish with a town council in Northumberland, and the northernmost town in England (OS grid ref NT9953). Full definition →

Old English bere
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited frombere“barley”
  2. English todayBerwick-upon-Tweed

From Old English bere (“barley”) + wīc (“settlement”) + name of river.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishbere all →

bartonbarlowberwickPembertonBarwickbereBarfordBarcroft

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.