English
Shortstown
From Short + -s- + town, named after the Short Brothers factory.
Formed from Short + -s- + town
Proto-Germanic *skurtaz ‘short’
Proto-West Germanic *skurt
Old English sċort ‘short’
Middle English schort
English Short
Proto-Celtic *dūnom ‘stronghold, rampart’
Proto-Germanic *tūną ‘fence, enclosure’
Proto-West Germanic *tūn ‘fence’
Old English tūn ‘an enclosed piece of ground’
Middle English toun ‘a town or city’
English town
The story
From Short + -s- + town, named after the Short Brothers factory.
Today it means
name A village and civil parish in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0746).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Shortstown