Etymology

Sileby

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in Charnwood borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK6015). Full definition →

Old Norse Sigólfr
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromSigólfr“a personal name”
  2. English todaySileby

From Old Norse Sigólfr (“a personal name”) + býr (“settlement”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.