English
Fordtown
From Ford + town and ford + town.
Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘to fare, cross’
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Proto-Germanic *furduz
Proto-West Germanic *furdu
Old English ford
Middle English fōrd
English Ford
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 Nickname for Detroit: the largest city in Michigan, United States.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Fordtown