Etymology

Maplebeck

M3A1P3L1E1B3E1C3K5

Today it means: A village and civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK710607). Full definition →

Old English *mapul ← Old Norse bekkr
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Old Norse · derived frombekkr“brook, stream”
  2. Old English · derived from*mapul“maple”
  3. English todayMaplebeck

From Old English *mapul (“maple”) + Old Norse bekkr (“brook, stream”).

Words from the same roots

Old English*mapul all →

maple

Old Norsebekkr all →

beckTroutbeckFulbeckMarbeck

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.