English
Englishtown
From English + town.
Proto-West Germanic *Angli ‘an Angle’
Old English Engle ‘the Angles’
Old English Englisċ ‘of the Angles’
Middle English Englisch ‘of England’
English English
Proto-Celtic *dūnom ‘stronghold, rampart’
Proto-Germanic *tūną ‘fence, enclosure’
Proto-West Germanic *tūn ‘fence’
Old English tūn ‘an enclosed piece of ground’
Middle English toun ‘a town or city’
English town
Today it means
name A community in Victoria County, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Englishtown