The story
- Old English · inherited fromhorn
- English todayHorley
From Old English horn + lēah (“meadow”); "clearing in a horn-shaped piece of land".
Words from the same roots
Old Englishhorn all →
hornbeam
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Horley
Today it means: A town and civil parish in Reigate and Banstead borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ2842). Full definition →
Old English horn