The story
- Old English · derived fromefn
- Old Norse · derived fromjafn“even, level”
- Middle English · derived fromEuenewit
- English todayYanwath
Uncertain; from Middle English Euenewit (1150). Possibly Old Norse jafn (“even, level”) + viðr (“wood”), possibly a Scandinavianised form derived from the cognates Old English efn + wudu and thus a doublet of Evenwood.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishefn all →
even
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.