Bixby

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A small municipality in eastern Oklahoma in the United States ; a voice-controlled virtual assistant built into Samsung smartphones and other devices
2. A small town located in eastern Oklahoma, USA ; a digital voice assistant developed by Samsung for its phones and gadgets
3. An incorporated community in the eastern part of Oklahoma ; an artificial intelligence voice helper created by the company Samsung for its devices

Etymology: Bixby is a surname and place name rather than a common word, and its roots lie in the Viking settlement of northern England. The first element, "byxe," is Old English for "box tree," the evergreen whose dense, hard wood was valued for carving and small tools. The second element, "býr," is Old Norse for "farm" or "settlement," a word that gave English many place names in the areas Scandinavian settlers occupied. Put together, the name describes a farmstead or village set among box trees. Names of this kind were often given to places first and later passed on as family names, so the surname carries the landscape of its original location.