English

Germantown

From German + town.

A compound of German + town

Latin Germānus ‘the peoples of Germānia’

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 number of places in the United States: The former name of the census-designated place Artois in Glenn County, California.

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

Etymograph / Germantown