Where does “Cotswolds” come from?

Cotswolds (English) comes from English wold, from Middle English wald, from Old English wald, from Proto-West Germanic walþu, from Proto-Germanic walþuz, from Proto-Indo-European wel- — to see.

Cotswolds (English): A range of limestone hills in West-central England

Definitions

  1. A range of limestone hills in West-central England

Ancestry of “Cotswolds”, step by step

Cotswolds traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English wold

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishwoldAn unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a...
2Middle Englishwaldwood , forest
3Old Englishwald—
4Proto-West Germanicwalþuforest
5Proto-Germanicwalþuzforest
6Proto-Indo-Europeanwel-to see

via Old English cod

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishcod—
2Proto-Germanickuddôbag; pod; sack; purse
3Proto-Indo-Europeangewt-sack; pouch; pouch, sack
4Proto-Indo-Europeangū-to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...

Words derived from “Cotswolds”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European wel- →