Where does “Painshawfield” come from?

Painshawfield (English) comes from Old English sceaga, from Proto-West Germanic skagō, from Proto-Germanic skōgaz — forest, wood.

Ancestry of “Painshawfield”, step by step

Painshawfield traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old English sceaga

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishsceagacopse, thicket
2Proto-West Germanicskagō—
3Proto-Germanicskōgazforest, wood

via Cumbric *penn

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cumbric*pennhead
2Cumbric*ıthe
3Cumbric*cogcuckoo
Every word from Proto-Germanic skōgaz →