Etymograph

English

Whitchurch

Whitchurch comes from Old English hwit + cirice ‘white church’.

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150hwit + cirice‘white church’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1948Whitchurch

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150hwit + cirice‘white church’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1948Whitchurch

Earliest quotation: 1948, and October, The Art and Mystery of the Railway: “We lived then in Whitchurch, the Shropshire Whitchurch, which…”

Every English word from Old English hwit + cirice

Today it means

name A number of places in England: A village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, and a southern suburb of Bristol, between Hartcliffe, Hengrove and Knowle (OS grid ref ST6167).

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Etymograph / Old English hwit + cirice / Whitchurch

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