English
Jenkintown
From Jenkins + town, named after a Welsh settler Stephen Jenkins.
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 Jenkins + town, named after a Welsh settler Stephen Jenkins.
Today it means
name A borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Jenkintown