The story
- Old English · inherited from*Swīneshēafod
- Middle English · inherited fromSwynesheved
- English todaySwineshead
Inherited from Middle English Swynesheved, Swynesheed, from Old English *Swīneshēafod, from swīnes (“pig's”) + hēafod (“head”); compare Old Italian Suinsivede. The euphemistic forms Swanshead and Swayneshead were known in Early Modern English.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.