The story
- Old English · derived fromsċīrġerēfa“sheriff, chief officer of a shire”
- English todayScreveton
From Old English sċīrġerēfa (“sheriff, chief officer of a shire”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”); the initial Sc-, instead of Sh-, is due to Scandinavian influence.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishsċīrġerēfa all →
sheriff
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.