Etymology

Ecclesall

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Today it means: A suburb and ward in the City of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3284). Full definition →

Old English *eclēs ← Proto-Brythonic *egluɨs
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromhalh“hollow”
  2. Proto-Brythonic · derived from*egluɨs“church”
  3. Old English · derived from*eclēs
  4. English todayEcclesall

From Old English *eclēs or Cumbric/Proto-Brythonic *egluɨs (“church”) + Old English halh (“hollow”).

Words from the same roots

Proto-Brythonic*egluɨs all →

Egglescliffe

Old Englishhalh all →

halesCatterallBeausaleScholar Green

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.