-
surname and
given name. The name
Presley is
derived from the Old
English preost,
meaning "priest", and leah
meaning "forest clearing". Most
instances of...
- Oxfordshire,
Shropshire and Devon, all of
which are
named from Old
English preost 'priest' + cot 'cottage', 'dwelling'. The
surname is most
common in Lancashire...
- Eccleston. Prescot's name is
believed to be
derived from the Anglo-Saxon
prēost "priest" + cot "cot",
meaning a
cottage or
small house owned or inhabited...
- to 1872. Prestwick's name
comes from the Old
English for, priest's farm:
preost meaning "priest" and wic
meaning "farm". The town was
originally an outlying...
-
Prestatyn derives from the Old
English prēosta (the
genitive plural of
prēost 'priest') and tūn ('homestead'), and thus
means 'the
homestead of the priests'...
- name of the
village means "Priests’
fortified place", from Anglo-Saxon
preost and burh,
possibly from a
fortified manor house belonging to the Bishop...
- if), ġif (if), bútan (unless) and þéah or þéah þe (although). Ġif messe-
preost his áġen líf ríhtliċe fadie, þonne is ríht þæt his wurðscipe wexe. If a...
-
derives form a
mixture of Old
English and Old
Norse and was
originally prēost tūn sker,
which translates as
Priests farm (or settlement)
under rock (or...
- -l -w ∅- -∅- m n r l w mann, næġl, rūn, lār, word -p- p — pr pl — port,
prēost,
plega -b- b br bl bōc, blōd, brād -t- t tr — tw tōþ, trēow,
twelf -d- d...
- It was
listed in the
Domesday Book of 1086 as "Preston" (Old English:
preost tun, "priest farm/settlement") when its lord was
Ansger of
Montacute (Alfward...
