Etymology

Eyemouth

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Today it means: A harbour town in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT9464). Full definition →

English mouth ← Middle English mouth ← Old English mūþ
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The story

  1. EnglishEye Water
  2. Proto-Indo-European*men-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*mn̥-tó-s
  4. Proto-Germanic*munþaz
  5. Proto-West Germanic*munþ
  6. Old Englishmūþ
  7. Middle Englishmouth
  8. Englishmouth
  9. English todayEyemouth

From Eye Water (“a local river”) + mouth (“river mouth”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.