English
Liverpool
Liverpool comes from Old English *Liferpōl.
- Old Englishc. 450–1150*Liferpōlreconstructed
- Englishearliest quotation 2009Liverpool
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Englishc. 450–1150*Liferpōlreconstructed
- Englishearliest quotation 2009Liverpool
Earliest quotation: 2009, Eve M. Kahn, Conversation-Piece Buys, Maybe. Intriguing Histories, Defini: “[…] British potters in Liverpool treasonously inscribed pro-American slogans…”
A compound of lifer ‘thick water’ + pōl ‘pool’
Proto-Germanic *librō ‘liver’
Proto-West Germanic *libru ‘liver’
Old English lifer ‘thick water’
Proto-Indo-European *bel- ‘bog, marsh’
Proto-Germanic *pōlaz ‘pool’
Old English pōl ‘pool’
Every English word from Old English *Liferpōl
Today it means
name A city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England; an important seaport in the United Kingdom, and once one of the biggest in the world.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old English *Liferpōl / Liverpool