English
Westwood
From west + wood.
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
Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- ‘to separate’
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Proto-West Germanic *widu ‘forest’
Old English widu
Old English wudu ‘wood’
Middle English wode ‘wood’
English wood
Today it means
name A suburb of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TF1700).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Westwood