Etymology

Featherstone

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in south-west Northumberland, England. Full definition →

Middle English featherston ← Old English feoþerstān
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromfiþer-“four”
  2. Old English · inherited fromfeoþerstān
  3. Middle English · inherited fromfeatherston
  4. English todayFeatherstone

From Middle English featherston, fetherstane, from Old English feoþerstān, fiþerstān (literally “four-stone”), from Old English fiþer- (“four”) + stān (“stone”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.