Etymograph

English

Keighley

Keighley comes from Middle English Chichelai.

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Chichelai
  2. EnglishtodayKeighley

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Chichelai
  2. EnglishtodayKeighley

The story

Recorded as Middle English Chichelai in the Domesday Book, the town is named with the Old English personal name *Cyhha + lēah (‘woodland clearing, glade’).

Every English word from Middle English Chichelai

Today it means

name A town and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0641).

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

Etymograph / Middle English Chichelai / Keighley

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