Badby
English
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Etymology
[edit]Meaning 'Badda's fortified place', from Old English Baddanbyrġ, from the personal name Badda, genitive singular Baddan + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortress”). The first syllable of the second element was elided over time through natural erosion, which led to it sounding identical to the common Old Norse-rooted locative ending -by.
Proper noun
[edit]Badby
- A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP5658).
References
[edit]- Parish map
- The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names by Victor Watts, ISBN: 978-0-521-16855-7
Categories:
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Villages in Northamptonshire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Northamptonshire, England
- en:Places in England