Etymology

sheepfold

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Today it means: An enclosure for keeping sheep. Full definition →

Middle English shepefald ← Old English sċēapa falde
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromsċēapa falde
  2. Middle English · inherited fromshepefald
  3. English todaysheepfold

Inherited from Middle English shepefald, perhaps from Late Old English sċēapa falde (literally “sheep's fold”), equivalent to sheep + fold.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.