Etymology

Cranswick

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Today it means: A suburban village in Hutton Cranswick parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA0252). Full definition →

Old English cran
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromcran“crane”
  2. English todayCranswick

Perhaps from Old English cran (“crane”) + -s- + wīċ (“village”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishcran all →

craneCranstonCranfieldCranfordCranleighCranmoreCranwellCornforthCornhill-on-TweedCransford

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.