Etymology

Salkeld

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Today it means: A surname from Old English. Full definition →

Old English sealh
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromsealh“willow, sallow”
  2. English todaySalkeld

Habitational surname from two places in Cumbria, from Old English sealh (“willow, sallow”) + hylte (“wood”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishsealh all →

saleSalfordsallowSelwoodSawdon

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.