Etymology

Nottingham

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Today it means: A city, unitary authority, and borough of Nottinghamshire, England. Full definition →

Middle English Notingeham ← Old English Snotingahām
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  1. Old English · inherited fromSnotingahām
  2. Middle English · inherited fromNotingeham
  3. English todayNottingham

From Middle English Notingeham, an alteration of Old English Snotingahām. The Normans found the consonant cluster /sn/ difficult to pronounce, so the initial S was dropped.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.