English
Nob Hill
Nob Hill comes from English nabob ‘wealthy person’.
- English1500–presentnabob‘wealthy person’
- Englishearliest quotation 2010Nob Hill
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- English1500–presentnabob‘wealthy person’
- Englishearliest quotation 2010Nob Hill
Earliest quotation: 2010, Katherine Powell Cohen, San Francisco's Nob Hill: “The first houses reached the windy upper slopes of…”
Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís ‘top, hill, rock’
Proto-Germanic *hulliz ‘hill’
Proto-West Germanic *hulli ‘hill’
Old English hyll ‘hill’
Middle English hil ‘hill’
English Hill
Every English word from English nabob
Today it means
name A neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English nabob / Nob Hill