Etymology

Brotherton

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district (OS grid ref SE4825). Full definition →

Old English brōþor
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The story

  1. Old English · derived frombrōþor“brother”
  2. English todayBrotherton

From Old English brōþor (“brother”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”). Compare Bretherton.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishbrōþor all →

brotherbrethren

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.