English
Saint Ann Parish
Blend of Saint Ann's Bay + parish.
A blend of Saint Ann's Bay + parish
Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- ‘to enter in, settle’
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Ancient Greek παροικία ‘a dwelling abroad’
Late Latin parochia
Old French paroisse
Middle English parisshe ‘a parish’
English parish
The story
Which was in turn named after Lady Anne Hyde, first wife of James II and VII, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and using the saintly terminology of the preceding Spanish name of the bay of Spanish Santa Gloria.
Today it means
name A parish of Middlesex County, Jamaica.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Saint Ann Parish