English

Fulwood

Fulwood comes from Middle English Fulewde.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

A compound of fūl ‘dirty, foul’ + wudu ‘wood’

Proto-Indo-European *puH- ‘to be rotten’

Proto-Indo-European *púH-lo-s

Proto-Germanic *fūlaz ‘foul, dirty’

Proto-West Germanic *fūl ‘foul, dirty’

Old English fūl ‘dirty, foul’

Proto-Indo-European *widʰu- ‘tree, beam’

Proto-Germanic *widuz ‘wood’

Old English wudu ‘wood’

The first element could possibly otherwise come from fugol (‘bird, fowl’), thus 'wood where fowling takes place'.

Every English word from Middle English Fulewde

name A habitational surname.

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