The story
- Old English · derived fromwād“woad”
- English todayWaddell
Various origins: * A variant of the Scottish surname Weddle. * An English topographic surname for someone who lived at the hill where woad grew, from Old English wād (“woad”) + hyll (“hill”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishwād all →
OdellwoadWatton-at-Stone
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.