Etymology

Nunthorpe

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Today it means: An outer suburb and civil parish in Middlesbrough borough, North Yorkshire, England; the suburb extends into Redcar and Cleveland (OS grid ref NZ5315). Full definition →

Old English nunne ← Old Norse þorp
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromþorp“village, settlement”
  2. Old English · derived fromnunne“nun”
  3. English todayNunthorpe

From Old English nunne (“nun”) + Old Norse þorp (“village, settlement”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishnunne all →

nunNunley

Old Norseþorp all →

thorp

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.