The story
- Old English · derived fromsǣ“sea, lake”
- English todaySeaton
From Old English sǣ (“sea, lake”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishsǣ all →
seaSeafordSeacombe
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A coastal village in Deviock parish, Cornwall, on a river of the same name (OS grid ref SX304544). Full definition →
From Old English sǣ (“sea, lake”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Old Englishsǣ all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.