Etymology

Cornhill-on-Tweed

Today it means: A village and civil parish in Northumberland, England, on the border with Scotland (OS grid ref NT8639). Full definition →

Old English cran
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromcran“crane”
  2. English todayCornhill-on-Tweed

From a metathesized form of Old English cran (“crane”) + healh (“nook of land”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishcran all →

craneCranstonCranfieldCranfordCranleighCranmoreCranwellCornforthCranswickCransford

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.