The story
- Old English · derived frombutere“butter”
- English todayButterworth
Habitational surname from a place in Lancashire, from Old English butere (“butter”) + worþ (“enclosure”). The city in Malaysia is named after William John Butterworth, Governor of the Straits Settlements from 1843 to 1855.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishbutere all →
butterButterwick
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.