Etymology

Mellanby

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Today it means: A surname from Old Norse. Full definition →

Old Norse býr
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived frombýr“farmstead”
  2. English todayMellanby

Habitational surname from a lost village in England, from an unclear first element + Old Norse býr (“farmstead”).

Words from the same roots

Old Norsebýr all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.