Etymology

Rawdon

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2139). Full definition →

Old Norse rauðr ← Old English dūn
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromdūn“hill”
  2. Old Norse · derived fromrauðr“red”
  3. English todayRawdon

From Old Norse rauðr (“red”) + Old English dūn (“hill”).

Words from the same roots

Old Norserauðr all →

Rothbury

Old Englishdūn all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.