The story
- Old English · inherited fromdēorfald“an enclosure or cage for wild beasts, a deer-fold, a park, an enclosure for deer”
- Middle English · inherited from*derfald
- English todaydeerfold
From Middle English *derfald, from Old English dēorfald (“an enclosure or cage for wild beasts, a deer-fold, a park, an enclosure for deer”), equivalent to deer + fold.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.