English Explanatory Dictionary

Woolfitt

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old Norse.

Word forms

Woolfitt Woolfitts

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in the parish of Tickhill, South Yorkshire, now known as Woolthwaite, but called Woolfit in 1817. The name derives from Old Norse úlfr (“wolf”) + þveit (“clearing, glade, meadow”).

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