English Explanatory Dictionary

Birtwistle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.

Word forms

Birtwistle Birtwistles Bertwistle Birtwhistle

Etymology

Habitational surname from a lost village in Lancashire, from Old Norse birki- (“birchen”) + Old English twisel (“fork, bifurcation”).

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