Etymology

Beswick

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA012481). Full definition →

Middle English Bexwic ← Old English *Bēaceswīc
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromwīc“village”
  2. Old English · inherited from*Bēaceswīc
  3. Middle English · inherited fromBexwic
  4. English todayBeswick

Partly from Middle English Bexwic, from Old English *Bēaceswīc (literally “Beac's farm”); and partly the Old Norse personal name Bø̄si or Besi + Old English wīc (“village”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishwīc all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.