English

Irvinestown

From Irvine + -s- + town after ownership transferred to Clan Irvine; originally named Lowtherstown.

Formed from Irvine + -s- + town

English yr ‘green, fresh’

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

The story

From Irvine + -s- + town after ownership transferred to Clan Irvine; originally named Lowtherstown.

name A town in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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

Etymograph / Irvinestown