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- Old English · derived frommæþel“speech”
- English todayMalton
Probably from Old English mæþel (“speech”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), hence a settlement where a public assembly was held.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Malton
Today it means: A market town and civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Ryedale district (OS grid ref SE7871). Full definition →
Old English mæþel