English

Niggertown

From nigger + town.

A compound of nigger + town

Latin niger ‘black’

Spanish negro ‘black’

Middle French nègre ‘a black person’

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 An area mainly populated by black people.

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

Etymograph / Niggertown