English
Shaughnessy Village
Shaughnessy+village; named after Thomas George Shaughnessy, 1st Baron Shaughnessy, president of the Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR, CP Rail).
A compound of Shaughnessy + village
Irish Seachnasaigh
English Shaughnessy
Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- ‘settlement’
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Latin villa ‘country house’
Latin vīllāticus ‘related to a vīlla’
Old French village
Middle English village
English village
The story
Shaughnessy+village; named after Thomas George Shaughnessy, 1st Baron Shaughnessy, president of the Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR, CP Rail).
Today it means
name A district of Ville-Marie borough, Montreal, Montreal Island, Montreal county, Region of Montreal, Quebec, Canada; a flat plateau neighbourhood bounded by the Saint-Jacques Escarpment and CP Rail lines and Autoroute Ville Marie and Little Burgundy to street south, Westmount and Atwater Avenue to street west, Guy Street and the Golden Square Mile to street east, and Sherbrooke Boulevard and the slo
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Shaughnessy Village