English
Greetland
From Greet + -land.
Formed from Greet + -land
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁d- ‘to sound’
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Proto-Germanic *grōtijaną ‘to cause to weep’
Proto-West Germanic *grōtijan ‘to address, greet’
Old English grētan ‘to greet, address’
Middle English greten
English Greet
Today it means
name A large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0821).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Greetland