Etymology

Bothwell

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Today it means: A large village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7058). Full definition →

Middle English bothe
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The story

  1. Middle English · derived frombothe“booth”
  2. English todayBothwell

From Middle English bothe (“booth”) + welle (“well, spring”).

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishbothe all →

bothboothBoothroyd

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.