Etymology

Humberside

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Today it means: A former county in northeastern England created from parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Replaced in 1996 by the East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. Full definition →

English side ← Middle English side ← Old English sīde
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  1. EnglishHumber
  2. Proto-Indo-European*seh₁-
  3. Proto-Germanic*sīdaz
  4. Proto-Germanic*sīdǭ
  5. Old Englishsīde
  6. Middle Englishside
  7. Englishside
  8. English todayHumberside

From Humber + -side.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.