Etymograph

English

Shireman

Possibly from shire + -man.

Formed from shire + -man

Proto-West Germanic *skīru ‘district; office’

Old English sċīr ‘shire; administrative region’

Middle English schire ‘region’

English shire

Today it means

name A surname.

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

Etymograph / Shireman