Given name & surname · also Old English
Skipwith
“sheep”
Skipwith is a surname from Old English (ultimately Old Norse).
Meaning & origin
What it means
Skipwith goes back to Old English sċēap, meaning “sheep.”
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Where it comes from
Skipwith comes from Old English, and ultimately from Old Norse.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old English sċēap (“sheep”), from Old Norse viðr (“tree; forest, wood”).
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