Etymology

Earnshaw

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

Old English earn
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromearn“eagle”
  2. English todayEarnshaw

Habitational surname from a place in Lancashire, from Old English earn (“eagle”) + healh (“nook, angle, recess”). Equivalent to erne + haugh.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishearn all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.