Etymology

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Today it means: A suburb of Huddersfield in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Full definition →

Old Irish Fiach ← Old Norse byr
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived frombyr“farm, village”
  2. Old Irish · derived fromFiach
  3. English todayFixby

From Old Irish Fiach (a personal name) + Old Norse byr (“farm, village”).

Words from the same roots

Old Norsebyr all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.