English
Flintshire
From Flint + -shire, also once known as the County of Flint.
Formed from Flint + -shire
Proto-West Germanic *flint
Old English flint
Middle English flynt ‘any of a group of solid stones, especially flint’
English Flint
Today it means
name A maritime traditional county of Wales, bounded to the north by the Irish Sea, to the northeast by the Dee estuary, to the east by Cheshire and to the south and southwest by Denbighshire. A detached part, Maelor Saesneg, is bounded on the northwest by Denbighshire, on the northeast by Cheshire, and on the south by Shropshire. There is a further small detached part around Marford.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Flintshire