Etymology

Lincolnshire

L1I1N1C3O1L1N1S1H4I1R1E1

Today it means: A county of eastern England bordered by South Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Rutland and the North Sea. Full definition →

Middle English Lincolneschire ← Old English Lincolnesċīr
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromLincolnesċīr
  2. Middle English · inherited fromLincolneschire
  3. English todayLincolnshire

Inherited from Middle English Lincolneschire, Lincolnschire, from late Old English Lincolnesċīr (first recorded in the 11th century); equivalent to Lincoln + -shire.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.