Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗name
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA village and civil parish in Aylesbury Vale district, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP7037). · A city in Hubbard County, Minnesota, United States. · A habitational surname from Old English.
From Old English āc (“oak”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”); equivalent to oak + -ley (“lea”). Compare Ackley, Oakley and Oakleigh, which have the same origin.
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- Derivation mentionācang
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