The story
- Old English · derived fromfealu“yellow, fallow, dun”
- English todayFawley
From either Old English fealu (“yellow, fallow, dun”) or fealh (“fallow land”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to fallow + -ley (“lea”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishfealu all →
fallow
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.