The story
- Old English · derived fromnetle“nettle”
- English todayNettleship
Habitational surname from a lost place in Yorkshire, from Old English netle (“nettle”) + -s- + hop (“small valley, enclosure”). The change of ending from -shop to -ship is common in Northern English.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishnetle all →
nettle
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.