-stow
Old English
suffix
Definitions
- suffix found in many placenames denoting "place" or "place of"
- place, area; provenance of, office of, jurisdiction of
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Germanic *stōwō (stowage, a place, place) derived from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂w- (set, place).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*steh₂w-
Gloss
set, place
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Action/Process