English

Stockbridge

By surface analysis, stock + bridge.

Equivalent to stock + bridge

Proto-Germanic *stukkaz ‘tree-trunk’

Proto-West Germanic *stokk

Old English stocc ‘log, trunk’

Middle English stok ‘tree trunk’

English stock

Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ ‘bridge’

Proto-West Germanic *bruggju ‘bridge’

Old English brycġ ‘bridge’

Middle English brigge ‘a bridge’

Today it means

name A place in the United Kingdom: A small town and civil parish in Test Valley borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3635).

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

Etymograph / Stockbridge