Etymology

Corley

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Old English *corn
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  1. Old English · inherited from*corn“crane”
  2. English todayCorley

From Old English *corn (“crane”), genitive plural, *corna + lēah (“woodland clearing”), 'the cranes' wood or clearing'.

Words from the same roots

Old English*corn all →

cornCornhillCorney

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.