The story
- Old English · derived fromġēac“cuckoo”
- English todayYaxley
From Old English ġēac (“cuckoo”) + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishġēac all →
Exbourne
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yaxley
Today it means: A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL1892). Full definition →
Old English ġēac