The story
- Old English · inherited fromhlÿde“loud, River Lid”
- Middle English · inherited fromLidelesdale
- English todayLiddle
Variant of Liddel, from Middle English Lidelesdale &c., from Old English hlÿde (“loud, River Lid”) + dæl (“dale, valley”), now Liddesdale, the valley of the Liddel Water.
Words from the same roots
Middle EnglishLidelesdale all →
LiddellLiddelLiddesdale
Old Englishhlÿde all →
LiddellLiddelLiddesdale
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.