Etymology

Selwood

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Today it means: A civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST787486). Full definition →

Old English sealh
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromsealh“willow”
  2. English todaySelwood

From Old English sealh (“willow”) + wudu (“wood”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishsealh all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.