Etymology

blackmoor

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Today it means: A suburb of Astley, Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD6900). Full definition →

Old English blæc
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromblæc“black”
  2. English todayBlackmoor

From Old English blæc (“black”) + mōr (“moor”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishblæc all →

blakeBlackburnBlackmoreBlakeneyBlakeleyBlackmerbleckBlakemereBlackmere

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.