English
Newtown
From new + town.
Proto-Indo-European *nu ‘now’
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Proto-Germanic *niwjaz ‘new’
Proto-West Germanic *niwi ‘new’
Old English nēowe ‘new’
Middle English neowe
English new
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
Today it means
name A suburb of Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL2472).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Newtown