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Mottershead

Mottershead proper noun: a surname from Old English.

Proper noun

Mottershead (plural Mottersheads)

  1. A surname from Old English.

Forms of Mottershead

pluralMottersheads
alternative formMothershead
alternative formMothershed

Origin of Mottershead

Habitational surname from a lost place in the parish of Mottram St. Andrew, in Cheshire, from Old English mōtere (“speaker”), + -s- + heafod (“head; summit, top of a hill”).

Questions about Mottershead

What does Mottershead mean?
Mottershead means a surname from Old English.
What part of speech is Mottershead?
Mottershead is a proper noun.

Words near Mottershead in the dictionary

  1. Mottas
  2. motte
  3. motte and bailey
  4. motte-and-bailey
  5. mottephobia
  6. Mottershead
  7. Mottersheads
  8. mottes
  9. mottes and baileys
  10. mottes-and-baileys
  11. mottetti

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