English
Hathaway
Two possible origins: * A topographic surname for someone who lived by a path across a heath, from Old English hǣþ (“heath, untilled land”) + weġ (“way”).
A compound of hǣþ ‘heath, untilled land’ + weġ ‘way’
Proto-Indo-European *kay-t-os ‘forest, wasteland, pasture’
Proto-Germanic *haiþī ‘heath, wasteland’
Proto-West Germanic *haiþi ‘uncultivated land, wasteland, moor’
Old English hǣþ ‘heath, untilled land’
Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- ‘to convey, transport’
Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti ‘to be transporting’
Proto-Germanic *weganą ‘to move, carry’
Proto-Germanic *wegaz ‘way’
Proto-West Germanic *weg ‘way, road’
Old English weġ ‘way’
Today it means
name A surname from Old English.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Hathaway