Etymology

Merseyside

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Today it means: A metropolitan county in northwestern England bordering Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire. Full definition →

English side ← Middle English side ← Old English sīde
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  1. EnglishMersey
  2. Proto-Indo-European*seh₁-
  3. Proto-Germanic*sīdaz
  4. Proto-Germanic*sīdǭ
  5. Old Englishsīde
  6. Middle Englishside
  7. Englishside
  8. English todayMerseyside

From Mersey + -side.

First known use, by meaning

  • from 1974 A metropolitan county in northwestern England bordering Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.