English
Holmby
Holmby comes from Old Swedish holmber ‘holm, islet’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *hulmaz ‘small island, hill, mound’.
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*hulmaz‘small island, hill, mound’reconstructed
- Old Norsec. 800–1350holmr
- Old Swedishmodernholmber‘holm, islet’
- SwedishmodernHolmby
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*hulmaz‘small island, hill, mound’reconstructed
- Old Norsec. 800–1350holmr
- Old Swedishmodernholmber‘holm, islet’
- SwedishmodernHolmby
- Englishtodaysame form
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *kelH- ‘to rise’
hill, excellent, colonel, column, excellence, hale, excellency, culmination, excelsior, culminate, colonnade, columella, 8 more
through Proto-Germanic *hulmaz ‘small island, hill, mound’
Today it means
name A small village in Skåne, Sweden.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *hulmaz / Holmby