Etymograph

English

Hockeytown

From hockey + town, in reference to the sport.

A compound of hockey + town

Middle Dutch hoec ‘hook’

Old French hoc

Middle French hoquet ‘shepherd’s staff, crook’

English hockey

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

Today it means

name A nickname for any of a number of cities, towns, or communities in the United States or Canada that have a history and reputation of participating in the sport of ice hockey.

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

Etymograph / Hockeytown