Etymology

Mickley

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Today it means: A habitational surname. Full definition →

Middle English Mikelhae ← Old English miċel
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited frommiċel“big”
  2. Middle English · derived fromMikelhae
  3. English todayMickley

'The great enclosure', from Middle English Mikelhae, from Old English miċel (“big”) + haga (“enclosure”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishmiċel all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.