The story
- Old English · derived fromheorot“hart”
- English todayHartland
From Old English heorot (“hart”) + land (“land”), because the village in Devon is situated on a peninsula whose form resembles a hart. The town in New Brunswick is named after surveyor James R. Hartley (1833 - 1868).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishheorot all →
hartHartfordHortonhartleyHurstonHartshorneHartfieldHartonHeorotHarthillHartburn
First known use, by meaning
- From 1874 A town in Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.