English

Grantown-on-Spey

From Grant + town + (River) Spey; named after Sir James Grant, 8th Baronet.

Formed from Grant + town

Old French granter

Anglo-Norman granter

Middle English granten

English Grant

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

From Grant + town + (River) Spey; named after Sir James Grant, 8th Baronet.

name A town in Highland council area, Scotland, originally in Morayshire (OS grid ref NJ0327).

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

Etymograph / Grantown-on-Spey