Etymology

Westow

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Ryedale district (OS grid ref SE7565). Full definition →

Old English wīf
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromwīf“woman”
  2. English todayWestow

"The women's meeting place", from Old English wīf (“woman”), genitive plural wīfa + stōw (“place”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishwīf all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.