English
Inglewood
Inglewood comes from Old English Engla.
- Old Englishc. 450–1150Engla
- Englishearliest quotation 2019Inglewood
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Englishc. 450–1150Engla
- Englishearliest quotation 2019Inglewood
Earliest quotation: 2019, Torii MacAdams, The New Generation of LA Rap Is Changing Everything: “But today they’re Darrell and Devante Caldwell, co-defendants in…”
A compound of Engle ‘the English, the Angles’ + wudu ‘woods, forest’
Proto-West Germanic *Angli ‘an Angle’
Old English Engle ‘the English, the Angles’
Proto-Indo-European *widʰu- ‘tree, beam’
Proto-Germanic *widuz ‘wood’
Old English wudu ‘woods, forest’
Every English word from Old English Engla
Today it means
name A place in the United States: A city in Los Angeles County, California.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old English Engla / Inglewood