Etymology

Slapton

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP9320). Full definition →

Old English slǣp
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromslǣp“slippery place”
  2. English todaySlapton

From Old English slǣp (“slippery place”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishslǣp all →

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