English
Postville
From post + -ville.
Formed from post + -ville
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- ‘to stand’
…
Proto-Italic *postis
Latin postis ‘door’
Old French post
Middle English post
English post
The story
The toponym refers to the settlement's origins as a Hudson Bay Company trading post.
Today it means
name A town and Inuit community government in Nunatsiavut, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Postville