Sheepy
See also: sheepy
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Old English sċēap (“sheep”) + īeġ (“island”).[1]
Proper noun
[edit]Sheepy (countable and uncountable, plural Sheepys)
- A civil parish in Hinckley and Bosworth district, Leicestershire, England, which includes the villages of Sheepy Magna and Sheepy Parva.
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Sheepy is the 50675th most common surname in England, belonging to 54 individuals.
References
[edit]- ^ "Key to English Place Names". Key to English Place Names- Worth Kent. University of Nottingham.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Sheepy”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- en:Civil parishes of Leicestershire, England
- en:Places in Leicestershire, England
- en:Places in England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English