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- Old English · derived fromnīewe“new”
- English todayNewark
Probably from Old English nīewe (“new”) + weorc (“work”). In this case, a perhaps more accurate sense of "work" would be that of a building, as an example of a work of labor. It appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Newerche.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishnīewe all →
Newberry
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.