The story
- Old English · derived fromtwisel“fork, bifurcation”
- Old Norse · derived frombirki-“birchen”
- English todayBirtwistle
Habitational surname from a lost village in Lancashire, from Old Norse birki- (“birchen”) + Old English twisel (“fork, bifurcation”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishtwisel all →
twissel
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.