Etymology

Portishead

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Today it means: A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in North Somerset district, Somerset, England, on the Bristol Channel (OS grid ref ST4676). Full definition →

Old English port
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromport“harbor”
  2. English todayPortishead

From the genitive singular of Old English port (“harbor”), portes + hēafod (“head”), meaning "the harbor headland".

Words from the same roots

Old Englishport all →

port

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.