Etymology

Londesborough

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE8645). Full definition →

Old Norse Loðinn ← Old English *Loden
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromburg“fort”
  2. Old English · derived from*Loden
  3. Old Norse · derived fromLoðinn
  4. English todayLondesborough

Apparently from Old Norse Loðinn, Old English *Loden + Old English burg (“fort”). Perhaps based on a Proto-Brythonic formation equivalent to Gaulish *Lugudūnon.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishburg all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.