Etymology

Lamberton

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Today it means: A hamlet and locality in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically in Berwickshire (OS grid ref NT967572). Full definition →

Old English lamb
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromlamb“lamb”
  2. English todayLamberton

From Old English lamb (“lamb”) + burna (“stream”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishlamb all →

lambLambethLambley

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.