Etymology

Dowthwaite

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Today it means: A surname from Old Norse. Full definition →

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  1. Old French · derived fromde“of”
  2. English todayDowthwaite

Habitational surname from a lost place in Yorkshire, from the Old Norse personal name Ufi + þveit (“clearing, glade”); the initial d- may come from Old French de (“of”), an element which later became fused into the surname. Compare Outhwaite.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchde all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.