Etymology

Willoughby

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Today it means: A village in Willoughby with Sloothby parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF4771). Full definition →

Old English weliġ ← Old Norse byr
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived frombyr“settlement”
  2. Old English · inherited fromweliġ“willow”
  3. English todayWilloughby

From Old English weliġ (“willow”) and Old Norse byr (“settlement”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishweliġ all →

willowwealy

Old Norsebyr all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.