Etymology

Wyton

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Today it means: A village in Houghton and Wyton parish, Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL2772). Full definition →

Old English wīċ
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromwīċ“village”
  2. English todayWyton

From Old English wīċ (“village”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishwīċ all →

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