Newton (toponym)

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Newton is a common English-speaking locality name (toponym).

Word origin

Newton as a settlement name is new town in today's English , and means 'new city', the term can be found in Old English neowa do , which can be seen before the 7th century: the places Newton are mostly older than the places Newtown. The ending -ton generally means 'place' and is very common.

See: Planstadt , Neustadt , on the history of the settlement, naming, variants in other languages

The place name is therefore common in the entire English-speaking and British-colonized area, there are said to be around 80 settlements with this name in the British Isles alone. Variants are Naunton , Newington , Newnton , Niton , Nyton , all in southern England.

The name of the settlement is also richly creative as a name of origin , there are around 100,000 people of the name worldwide.

See: Newton (family name)

Occasionally, but especially in the case of other geographical objects, there is mostly an appreciation for the British naturalist Sir Isaac Newton  (1643–1727) - whose surname is also derived as a name of origin from a town (Newtons of Woolsthorpe Manor) .

variants

Great Britain

England

such as:

  • RAF Newton , Royal Air Force base in Nottinghamshire

Scotland

Wales

Canada

New Zealand

United States

places


See also:

Administrative units

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Others

Outside the earth

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Select Newton Surname Genealogy. In: The Select Surname Website. Retrieved May 26, 2009 .
  2. ^ A b Surname: Newtown. Name Origin Research, accessed May 26, 2009 (English, 1980-2007).
  3. ^ Newton . In: The Internet Surname Database (surnamedb.com); accessed on June 2, 2016.