Comment on What's a small cleared space in a forest where people can live called?
Taniwha420@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Old English was ‘den’. Place names ending in ‘den’ or ‘don’ were originally farmsteads cleared in the forest, i.e. Wimbledon, or Camden.
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
… London?
Dasus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Apparently not.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_London#Propo…