Where does “Hollywood” come from?

Hollywood derives from English wood, which comes from Middle English wood, Old English wudu, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European widʰu- meaning tree or wood.

Hollywood (English): Resembling or relating to the Hollywood movie...

Definitions

  1. Resembling or relating to the Hollywood movie...

Ancestry of “Hollywood”, step by step

Hollywood traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Wood

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishWoodAn English topographic surname for someone who lived in or near a wood
2EnglishFrogAlternative form of frog
3Portuguesefrocoflock
4Latinfloccustuft, wisp of wool
5Frankishflokkodown, wool, flock
6Proto-Germanic*flukkô
7Proto-Indo-Europeanplewk-to fly, flow, run; to splash, to flap with hands
8Proto-Indo-Europeanplew-to fly, flow, run

via English Holly

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishHollyAny of various shrubs or (mostly) small trees, of the genus Ilex, either evergreen or deciduous, used as decoration especially at Christmas
2Middle EnglishhollyAlternative form of holy
3Old Englishholeġn
4Proto-West Germanichulisholly
5Proto-Indo-Europeankel-to hit; beat; to pierce, to stab; goblet

Words derived from “Hollywood

Every word from Proto-Indo-European plew-Every word from Proto-Indo-European plewk-Every word from Proto-Germanic *flukkô
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