The story
- Old English · inherited fromtruht“trout”
- English todayTrousdale
Reduced form of *Troutsdale, meaning "trout pool", from Old English truht (“trout”) + steall (“fishing ground”); akin to trout stall. The second element was eventually misanalysed as dale.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishtruht all →
Troutbeck
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.