Etymograph

English

Huntingtown

From hunting + town.

A compound of hunting + town

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 An unincorporated community in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.

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

Etymograph / Huntingtown