English
Woodrow
From wood + row.
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
Proto-Indo-European *Hreyk- ‘to line up; to arrange’
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Proto-Germanic *raiwō
Proto-West Germanic *raiwu
Old English rǣw ‘row, line’
Middle English rewe ‘row’
English row
Today it means
name A topographic surname from Middle English for a dweller in a row of houses near a wood.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Woodrow