Etymology

Olney

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Today it means: A market town and civil parish in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8851). Full definition →

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The story

From the dative form of the Old English personal name *Olla + īeġ (“island”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.