Etymograph

English

Halesowen

Halesowen comes from Old English healh ‘nook’, and goes back to Proto-West Germanic *halh ‘a depression or elevation, an area of land…’.

  1. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*halh‘a depression or elevation, an area of land that differs in elevation from what it…’reconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150healhas halh, plural‘nook’
  3. Old English, derivedc. 450–1150halas
  4. EnglishtodayHalesowen

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*halh‘a depression or elevation, an area of land that differs in elevation from what it…’reconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150healhas halh, plural‘nook’
  3. Old English, derivedc. 450–1150halas
  4. EnglishtodayHalesowen

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *klHk(ᵂ)-(n)-

quilt, counterpoint, recalcitrant, calzone, 26 more

Today it means

name A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England; previously in Worcestershire and historically an exclave of Shropshire (OS grid ref SO9683).

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

Etymograph / Proto-West Germanic *halh / Halesowen

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