The story
- Old English · inherited fromCofingtun
- English todayCovington
From Old English Cofingtun, from Cofa (a masculine given name) + -ing (“belonging to”) + -tun (“settlement”); literally “Cofa’s Town”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Covington
Today it means: A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL0570). Full definition →
Old English Cofingtun