Etymology

Wainfleet

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Today it means: A rural township in the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada. Full definition →

Old English wæġn
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromwæġn“wagon”
  2. English todayWainfleet

Ultimately from Old English wæġn (“wagon”) + flēot (“small stream”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishwæġn all →

wain

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.