English
Westsylvania
Blend of west + Pennsylvania.
A blend of west + Pennsylvania
Proto-Indo-European *wek⁽ʷ⁾speros ‘evening’
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Proto-Germanic *westrą
Proto-West Germanic *westr ‘western’
Old English west
Middle English west
English west
first attested The name was first used in 1776 in the early days of the American Revolutionary War, when the state was proposed (as stated in the etymology)
The story
The name was first used in 1776 in the early days of the American Revolutionary War, when the state was proposed.
Today it means
name A proposed state of the United States located in what is now West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania, and small parts of Kentucky, Maryland, and Virginia. It would have been the fourteenth state in the newly formed United States, had it been recognized.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Westsylvania