Etymology

Elizabethtown

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Today it means: A ghost town and former gold rush town in Plumas County, California. Full definition →

English town ← Middle English toun ← Old English tūn
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The story

  1. Proto-Semitic*ʔil-
  2. Biblical Hebrewאֵל (el)
  3. Biblical Hebrewנִשְׁבַּע (nishbá)
  4. Biblical Hebrewאֱלִישֶׁבַע (ʾĕlîšeḇaʿ)
  5. Ancient GreekἘλισάβετ (Elisábet)
  6. Middle EnglishElizabeth
  7. EnglishElizabeth
  8. Proto-Indo-European*dewh₂-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*duh₂-nós?
  10. Proto-Celtic*dūnom
  11. Proto-Germanic*tūną
  12. Proto-West Germanic*tūn
  13. Old Englishtūn
  14. Middle Englishtoun
  15. Englishtown
  16. English todayElizabethtown

From Elizabeth + town.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.