English

Portpatrick

From port + Patrick, after St Patrick's Church or earlier chapel.

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

Proto-Indo-European *pértus ‘crossing’

Proto-Italic *portus ‘harbour’

Latin portus ‘harbour, port’

Old English port ‘a port, haven’

English port

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ‘to protect, to ward’

Latin Patricius ‘patrician’

Middle English Patrick

Today it means

name A coastal village and harbour in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, originally in Wigtownshire (OS grid ref NW9954).

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

Etymograph / Portpatrick