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Cotton
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cotton
English
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Etymology 1
From en ang cottūn cottage farmstead, from ang cot cottage + ang tūn homestead.
Proper noun
The name of several settlements around the world:
en village/and/cpar in dist/Staffordshire Moorlands co/Staffordshire cc/England OS grid ref SK0645. Parish map (Staffordshire)
en village/and/cpar in dist/Mid Suffolk co/Suffolk cc/England OS grid ref TM0767. Parish map (Suffolk)
en ucomm co/Mitchell County s/Georgia c/USA.
en twp/and/ucomm therein, in co/Saint Louis County s/Minnesota c/USA.
en habitational Old English.
Derived terms
en Cottonian
en Far Cotton
Etymology 2
From en he קָתָן Hebr katan small.
Proper noun
en Hebrew.
Derived terms
Cotton-Mouton effect
References
Anagrams
en cnoott Contot