The story
- Old English · derived fromcnoll“knoll, summit”
- English todayKnowlton
From Old English cnoll (“knoll, summit”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishcnoll all →
knoll
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A hamlet in East Dorset district, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SU022103). Full definition →
From Old English cnoll (“knoll, summit”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
Old Englishcnoll all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.