Mældun

Old English

Etymology

From mǣl (“sign, cross, monument”) + dūn (“hill”), meaning something like "monument hill."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæl.duːn/, [ˈmæɫ.duːn]

Proper noun

Mældūn m

1. Maldon, a town in Essex, England

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Mældún”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.