Makerfield

专有名词

英文释义

专有名词
  1. An area in northwest England, now split between the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester and the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens in Merseyside, both within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire.

词源

Recorded by Bede as Maserfelth (c. 730 AD), apparently a miscopying of Old English *Macerfelth. From Proto-Brythonic *maguɨr (“a wall”) (itself from Latin maceria) + Old English feld (“a field”).
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