Etymology

Wycliffe

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Today it means: A village in Wycliffe with Thorpe parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1114). Full definition →

Old English wiht
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromwiht“bend”
  2. English todayWycliffe

From Old English wiht (“bend”) + clif (“escarpment, hill-slope; riverbank”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishwiht all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.