English
Yorktown
From York + town, in Virginia after its county.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ebʰros ‘yew’
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Old English eofor ‘boar’
Old English Eoforwīċ
Old Norse Jórk
Middle English York
English York
Proto-Celtic *dūnom ‘stronghold, rampart’
Proto-Germanic *tūną ‘fence, enclosure’
Proto-West Germanic *tūn ‘fence’
Old English tūn ‘an enclosed piece of ground’
Middle English toun ‘a town or city’
English town
Today it means
name A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Bureau County, Illinois.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Yorktown