The story
- Old English · derived fromsceaga“coppice, thicket”
- Cumbric · derived from*penn“head, summit”
- English todayPainshawfield
From Cumbric *penn (“head, summit”) + Old English sceaga (“coppice, thicket”) + feld (“field, open plain”).
Words from the same roots
Cumbric*penn all →
PenrithPentlandPenworthamPenicuikPenshawPen-y-ghent
Old Englishsceaga all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.