The story
- Old English · inherited fromcweorndun
- English todayQuorn
Shortened from earlier Quorndon, from Old English cweorndun, from cweorn (“millstone; quern”) + dun (“hill”). The fox hunt, the meat substitute and the town in Australia are named after the village in Leicestershire.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishcweorndun all →
Quarndon
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.