English

Wyckoff

Wyckoff comes from Dutch Wyckoff.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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Earliest quotation: 2018, Massive wildfires scorching California: “Rose Wyckoff holds up three kittens August 10 in…”

A compound of wijk ‘district’ + hof ‘farmstead’

Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- ‘village, household’

Latin vīcus ‘hamlet, village, neighborhood’

Proto-West Germanic *wīk ‘dwelling, village’

Old Dutch *wīk

Middle Dutch wijc

Dutch wijk ‘district’

Proto-Indo-European *keh₂wp- ‘to bend, arch, vault’

Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂wp-os

Proto-Germanic *hufą ‘hill, elevated place’

Proto-West Germanic *hof

Old Dutch *hof ‘court, farmstead’

Middle Dutch hof ‘court, enclosed space’

Dutch hof ‘farmstead’

Every English word from Dutch Wyckoff

name A surname from Dutch.

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