English

Hamilton Town

From Hamilton + town.

A compound of Hamilton + town

Old English *Hameldūne

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 being named after British (Irish) planter Hamilton Brown, a local politician, and founder of the town, now Brown's Town.

name Former name of Brown's Town: a town in Saint Ann Parish, Middlesex, Jamaica.

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

Etymograph / Hamilton Town