Description
Coston
Coston, Leicestershire
Coston, in the Framland Hundred of Leicestershire, is a Anglo-Scandinavian hybrid place-name probably coming from the Old Norse male personal name Kátr (genitive singular Káts), presumably an original byname from the Old Norse adjective kátr ‘glad’, combined with the Old English tun ‘an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; an estate’.
Ascribed Culture
Collection
- Viking Names
Keywords
- hybrid name, Leicestershire, male_name, place-name
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References
Barrie Cox, A Dictionary of Leicestershire and Rutland Place-Names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (2005), p. 27.
Barrie Cox, The Place-Names of Leicestershire II. English Place-Name Society LXXVIII (2002), p. 151.