English

Francestown

From Frances + town, after Frances Deering Wentworth.

Late Latin Franciscus ‘Frankish’

Old French Franceise

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 town and census-designated place therein, in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Francestown