English

Skellytown

From Skelly + town, being named after William Grove Skelly.

Formed from Skelly + town

Old Norse *skjelga

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 Skelly + town, being named after William Grove Skelly.

name A town in Carson County, Texas, United States.

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

Etymograph / Skellytown