Weymouth

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A coastal town on the English Channel in Dorset, known for its harbour and seaside resorts ; a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, on the southeastern coast of the United States
2. A seaport and resort in the county of Dorset in southern England ; a community in Massachusetts in the eastern United States near the Atlantic coast
3. Seaside town on the south coast of England in Dorset ; a New England municipality in Massachusetts located on the Atlantic seaboard of the United States

Etymology: Weymouth is a proper noun, the name of a seaside town on the south coast of England, and it is built from two plain English elements. "Wey" is the name of the river that reaches the sea there, and "mouth" is the ordinary word for the place where a river meets the sea. So the name is a description of the place as much as a label: the mouth of the River Wey. The name then travelled across the Atlantic. The village in Nova Scotia, Canada, took its name from the city of Weymouth in Massachusetts, so the English place name was reused twice in two different countries. Nothing in the English name changed on the way; the second Weymouth simply borrowed the first.