The story
- Old English · derived fromBotwulf
- English todayBoston
The US city is named after the English town (from which several prominent colonists had come), which itself is sometimes said to be named as a contraction of Botolph's town or Botolph's stone (the name Botolph itself coming from Old English Botwulf, from boda + wulf). However, this is uncertain.
Words from the same roots
Old EnglishBotwulf all →
Botolph
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.