English

Pigford

From pig + ford.

Formed from pig + ford

Middle English pigge ‘pig, piglet’

English pig

Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘to fare, cross’

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Proto-Germanic *furduz

Proto-West Germanic *furdu

Old English ford

Middle English fōrd

English ford

Today it means

name A surname.

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