The story
- Old English · derived fromwīd“wide”
- English todayWhitcombe
From either Old English wīd (“wide”) or hwīt (“white”) + cumb (“combe, valley”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishwīd all →
Widdicombe
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Whitcombe
Today it means: A village and civil parish in Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY717882). Full definition →
Old English wīd