Etymograph

English

Monmouthshire

From Monmouth + shire.

A compound of Monmouth + shire

Welsh Mynwy

English Monmouth

Proto-West Germanic *skīru ‘district; office’

Old English sċīr ‘shire; administrative region’

Middle English schire ‘region’

English shire

Today it means

name A maritime traditional county of England and Wales, bordered by to the east by Gloucestershire, to the northeast by Herefordshire, to the north by Brecknockshire, to the west by Glamorganshire and to the south by the Bristol Channel. It was part of England until renamed Gwent and taken into Wales in 1974.

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

Etymograph / Monmouthshire