Etymology

york

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Today it means: to bowl a yorker at a batsman, especially to get a batsman out in this way. Full definition →

Middle English Ȝork ← Old Norse Jórvík ← Old English Eoforwīċ
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york · verb1

Back-formation from yorker.

york · verb2

Perhaps imitative.

York · proper noun, noun3

  1. Proto-Celtic*eburos
  2. Proto-Brythonic*eβur
  3. Proto-Brythonic*Eβrọg
  4. LatinEborācum
  5. Old EnglishEoforwīċ
  6. Old NorseJórvík
  7. Middle EnglishȜork
  8. English todayYork

From Middle English York, Ȝork, from Old Norse Jórk, Jórvík, from Old English Eoforwīċ, from Latin Eborācum, ultimately from Proto-Brythonic *Eβrọg (compare Welsh Efrog, from Old Welsh Caer Ebrauc, from Proto-Brythonic *Eβrọg), from *eburos (“yew”) + *-ākom (positive suffix). Displaced Middle English Everwik, from the Old English.

Words from the same roots

LatinEborācum all →

Ebor

Proto-Brythonic*Eβrọg all →

Ebor

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