Royston
English
proper noun
Definitions
- (town in North Hertfordshire), on the Cambridgeshire border.
- (large village in Barnsley) OS grid ref SE3611.
- (suburb in Glasgow) OS grid ref NS6066.
- (seaside hamlet on Vancouver Island).
- (city in Franklin County).
- (ghost town in Fisher County).
Etymology
Derived from Old English tūn (enclosure, homestead, town, farmstead, settlement, garden, yard).
Origin
Old English
tūn
Gloss
enclosure, homestead, town, farmstead, settlement, garden, yard
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
園
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Allington English
- Alphamstone English
- Drayton English
- Washington English
- *tūną Proto-Germanic
- -tūn Old English
- bere Old English
- cirictun Old English
- clǣġ Old English
- deortun Old English
- lictun Old English
- tynan Old English
- tūn Old English
- wyrttun Old English
- toun Middle English
- town Middle English
- ey Old Norse