Etymograph

English

Niggatown

From nigga + town.

A compound of nigga + town

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

noun An area mainly populated by black people.

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

Etymograph / Niggatown