English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Thrigby

Major Settlement in the Parish of Thrigby

Historical Forms

  • Trikebei (3x), Trukebei 1086 DB
  • Trikebi 1177 P
  • Trykebi 1219 Langley
  • Trikeby 1219,1227,1254 FF 1223 Cur 1254–75 Val 1254 NfA 1257,1269 Ass 1275 RH
  • Trykeby 1224 Bract 1250,1257 Ass 1275 Bodl
  • Thirkeby 1219 Langley 1302,1316,1346 FA 1324to1427 FF 1333 SR 1450 NfA 1467–72 ECP 1519 AD
  • Thyrkeby 1250 Ass 1331,1364,1449 FF 1401–2 FA 1517 BM
  • Thryckeby 1291 Tax 1428 FA 1553 Pat
  • Thrickby 1303 Bodl
  • Thirkkeby 1309–10 Deeds
  • Thurkeby 1312 FF 1467–72 ECP
  • Thrikkeby 1320 DeBanco 1369 FF
  • Thrickeby 1330 SR 1341 Pat 1535 VE
  • Thirckeby 1336 FF
  • Thrik(e)by(e) 1343 FF 1528 BM 1535 VE
  • Thyrkby(e) 1468 Bodl 1479 Past

Etymology

OWScand  Þrýðríkr (later Thridicke 1426, Trycke 1531 Lind, ONorw Þrydreke 1357 SMPs), a pers.n. recorded for instance on the Dynna rune-stone (Gran, Oppland, Norway, from the mid-11th cent.; v. Sandred 1988: 18 f.), and . The spellings indicate a short form, weakly inflected, Þrykki , as Ekwall assumes (DEPN s.n.; cf. Insley 431), which is evidenced among the forms quoted in Lind. The substitution of t for þ in the earliest forms is explained as due to AN influence (Zachrisson 39 ff, IPN 108). Some spellings show metathesis. The assimilation k > g before the voiced labial cannot be earlier than the 16th cent., judging by the above series of forms.

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name