Etymology

Furse

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Today it means: A surname from Old English. Full definition →

Middle English Furse ← Old English fyrs
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromfyrs“gorse”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromFurse
  3. English todayFurse

From Middle English Furse, topographic surname for someone who lived in a piece of land abundant with gorse, from Old English fyrs (“gorse”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishfyrs all →

furze

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.