The story
- Old English · derived fromsċieran“to cut, shear”
- English todaySharland
Topographic surname for someone who lived at the shorn or separated land, from Old English sċieran (“to cut, shear”) + land.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishsċieran all →
shear
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.