Etymology

Litherland

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Today it means: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3397). Full definition →

Old Norse hliðar ← Old English land
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromland“land”
  2. Old Norse · derived fromhliðar
  3. English todayLitherland

From Old Norse hliðar, genitive of hlið (“slope”), + Old English land (“land”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishland all →

landFalklandlandeShirlandBigland

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.