Etymology

Sherwood

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Today it means: An English habitational surname from Old English derived from Sherwood Forest. Full definition →

Old English scīr
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromscīr
  2. English todaySherwood

From Old English scīr + wudu (“forest”). The first element is either the ancestor of the modern noun shire, or an adjective meaning "bright" (ancestor to the modern word sheer), depending on the specific placename (listed below).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishscīr all →

SherburneSherbourneSherburnShirlandShereford

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.