Etymology

Stowe

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Middle English stowe ← Old English stōw
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromstōw“place”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromstowe
  3. English todayStowe

From Middle English stowe, from Old English stōw (“place”).

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishstowe all →

stowFelixstowe

Old Englishstōw all →

stowPadstow

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.