Etymology

Frisby

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK707013). Full definition →

Old Norse frisir
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromfrisir“Frisians”
  2. English todayFrisby

From Old Norse frisir (“Frisians”) + býr (“settlement”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.