Etymology

Springham

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Today it means: A surname from Old English. Full definition →

Old English spring
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromspring“spring, well, source”
  2. English todaySpringham

Habitational surname from a minor place in Hellingly, Sussex, from Old English spring (“spring, well, source”) + hām (“homestead”) or hamm (“water meadow”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishspring all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.