Etymograph

English

Manchester

Manchester comes from Old English Mameċeaster.

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150Mameċeaster
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2010Manchester

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150Mameċeaster
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2010Manchester

Earliest quotation: 2010, Margaret Puskar-Pasewicz, Cultural Encyclopedia of Vegetarianism: “Metcalfe joined the Bible Christian Church at Salford, in…”

The story

From Old English Mameċeaster, from the original Brythonic name represented by Imperial Latin Mamucium (maybe from a word related to Proto-Brythonic *mamm (‘mother; female animal; womb’), in reference to a breast-shaped hill) and Old English ċeaster (‘Roman fort’), from Latin castra (‘camp’).

Every English word from Old English Mameċeaster

Today it means

name A major city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in northwestern England.

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

Etymograph / Old English Mameċeaster / Manchester

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