Etymology

Huntsville

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Today it means: A city, the county seat of Madison County, Alabama, United States. Full definition →

French ville ← Middle French ville ← Old French ville
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The story

  1. EnglishHunt
  2. Proto-Indo-European*weyḱ-
  3. Proto-Italic*weikslā
  4. Latinvīlla
  5. Old Frenchville
  6. Middle Frenchville
  7. Frenchville
  8. English todayHuntsville

From Hunt + -s- + -ville.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.