Etymology

Swartby

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Today it means: A habitational surname. Full definition →

Old Norse svartr býr
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromsvartr býr“black town”
  2. English todaySwartby

From Old Norse svartr býr (“black town”). Not to be confused with Swarby.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.