Where does “Westminster” come from?

I need to work through this etymology chain carefully, but I notice there's a significant problem: the chain doesn't make logical sense for "Westminster." The chain shows: west → monasterium → μοναστήριον → μόνος → χρῶμα → gʰreu → χρῶμα This appears to conflate two different etymologies (one for "west" and one involving Greek roots about color/sound and solitude). Westminster is a compound of "west" + "minster" (monastery), but the chain provided doesn't coherently support this. Additionally, the chain contains internal contradictions: - It jumps from English "west" directly to Latin "monasterium" (which relates to "minster," not "west") - It includes χρῶμα (chroma, color) and gʰreu (which relates to sound/grinding), which don

Westminster (English): The abbey of Westminster

Definitions

  1. The abbey of Westminster

Ancestry of “Westminster”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishWestmynster
2Old EnglishWestmynster
3Old Englishwestwest
4Proto-West Germanic*westrwestern, westernly
5Proto-Germanicwestrąwest; west, westward
6Proto-Germanicwestrazwest, western
7Proto-Indo-Europeanwek(ʷ)sperosevening
8Proto-Indo-Europeanwe-

Words derived from “Westminster

Every word from Proto-Indo-European we-Every word from Proto-Indo-European wek(ʷ)sperosEvery word from Proto-Germanic westraz