Etymology

playstow

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Today it means: A place for play; playground; park. Full definition →

Middle English *pleystow ← Old English pleġstōw
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited frompleġstōw
  2. Middle English · inherited from*pleystow
  3. English todayplaystow

From Middle English *pleystow, from Old English pleġstōw, pleġestōw (“playground, gymnasium, amphitheater, a place for a play, wrestling-place”). By surface analysis, play + stow (“place”).

Words from the same roots

Middle English*pleystow all →

plestor

Old Englishpleġstōw all →

plestor

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.