Tisbury
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Old English personal name *Tyssi, genitive case *Tysses + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”).
Proper noun
[edit]Tisbury
- A village and civil parish in south-west Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9429). [1]
- A suburb of Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand. [2]
- A town on Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States.
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “East Tisbury and West Tisbury”, in Survey of English Place-Names, Nottingham University, n.d.
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Villages in Wiltshire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Wiltshire, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Suburbs in New Zealand
- en:Places in New Zealand
- en:Towns in Massachusetts, USA
- en:Towns in the United States
- en:Places in Massachusetts, USA
- en:Places in the United States