The story
- Old English · derived fromrūh“rough, overgrown”
- English todayRowbotham
From Old English rūh (“rough, overgrown”) + botm (“bottom”), a topographic surname for someone who lived in an overgrown valley.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishrūh all →
RuffordRoughtonRowtonRowarthRufforth
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.