English

Gnometown

From gnome + town.

A compound of gnome + town

New Latin gnomus ‘a gnome, a creature corresponding to the…’

French gnome

English gnome

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

The story

Dawson commemorates its notable citizens by making gnomes representing them.

name Nickname for Dawson: a small city in Lac qui Parle, Minnesota, United States.

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

Etymograph / Gnometown