Etymograph

English

Wentbridge

From the River Went + bridge.

Formed from Went + bridge

Middle English went ‘crossroad, passage’

English Went

Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ ‘bridge’

Proto-West Germanic *bruggju ‘bridge’

Old English brycġ ‘bridge’

Middle English brigge ‘a bridge’

English bridge

Today it means

name A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4817).

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

Etymograph / Wentbridge