Etymograph

English

Teeswater

From Tees + water, after the river in northern England.

A compound of Tees + water

Old English *Tēs(e)

English Tees

Proto-Indo-European *wed- ‘water; to well’

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Proto-Germanic *watōr ‘water’

Proto-West Germanic *watar ‘water’

Old English wæter ‘water’

Middle English water ‘water’

English water

Today it means

noun One of a breed of cattle formerly bred in England, but supposed to have originated in Holland and to have been the principal stock from which the shorthorns were derived.

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

Etymograph / Teeswater