Etymology

Shepley

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Old English scēap
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromscēap“sheep”
  2. English todayShepley

From Old English scēap (“sheep”) + lēah (“woodland clearing”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishscēap all →

Shipley

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.