Etymology

Girton

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4262). Full definition →

Old English grēot
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromgrēot“gravel”
  2. English todayGirton

From Old English grēot (“gravel”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishgrēot all →

gritGirtfordGreat BridgeGretna Green

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.