English
Pavenham
Pavenham may come from Old English hām ‘home’.
- Old Englishc. 450–1150hām‘home’uncertain
- EnglishtodayPavenham
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Old Englishc. 450–1150hām‘home’uncertain
- EnglishtodayPavenham
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *tḱey- ‘to settle, dwell’
post, site, position, situation, purpose, positive, suppose, compound, opponent, propose, expose, impose, consolation, dispose, compose, repository, proponent, exponent, posit, expound, situate, pone, situs, 68 more
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- ‘to be lying down, to settle’
city, civil, hide, cemetery, civic, coma, citadel, civitas, ceilidh, 32 more
through Proto-Germanic *haimaz ‘home’
bohemian, homelessness, haunt, hamlet, 8 more
through Proto-West Germanic *haim ‘home’
through Old English hām ‘home’
Today it means
name A village and civil parish in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP9955).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old English hām / Pavenham